Chamber of commerce and of industry in France

See also: Room

The chambers of commerce and of industry (CCI) are, in France as in the other countries, of the organisms in charge to represent the interests of the Entreprise S commercial, industrial and of service of an geographical area and to bring certain services to them.

They are public corporations, belonging to the category of the economic public corporations, which can, moreover, to manage equipment with the profit of these companies.

Their current organization was fixed by the law of the April 9th 1898 several times modified and lastly codified at book VII of the Commercial law.

History

The oldest date of 1599 with Marseilles. Simple a office the commercial composed of four Appointed S chosen “among the business men apparent, worthy, sufficient and solvent” designated by the council of city. This office is approved by letters patent of the king Henri IV the following year. It takes the name of chamber of commerce and becomes independent of the council of city in 1650.

In second Rouen is equipped with an office commercial in 1601 then Paris, the same year.

Before the revolution of the chambers of commerce exist in Marseilles, Dunkirk (1700), Lyon (1702), Rouen and Toulouse (1703), Montpellier (1704), Bordeaux (1705), Lille (1714), La Rochelle (1719), Bayonne (1726), Amiens (1761). In this last room also sit of the “manufacturers”, outline of the industrial component. Six of these eleven chambers of commerce are in port cities and there is not in Paris.

Abolished in 1791, the rooms are restored by Jean Antoine Chaptal in 1802.

Organization

The chambers of commerce and of industry have at their head an assembly elected among the representatives of the companies of their district. Each company is classified in a category (trade, industry and services) and, if necessary, in a subcategory. The number of representatives of each category or subcategory within the assembly is function of the relative economic weight of each one of them in term of many companies, of number of paid and basic tax. This assembly appoints in her center a president and an office (vice-presidents - one by category -, treasurer, secretary,…). The services of the CCI are placed under the authority of a managing director named by the president after consultation of the office. The treasurer exerts, within the meaning of the Public accounts, the countable role of of the public corporation, the president being the Ordonnateur.

In fact organizations manage administrative public services jointly and industrial and commercial public services. The jurisprudence of the Court of appeal and the Council of State the class in the administrative public corporations. Nevertheless when they manage public services industrial and commercial (port S, Aéroport S, etc) they behave, so much with respect to their users than their personnel assigned to these services, like industrial and commercial public corporations.

Their receipts come from a perceived tax in an additional way to the Professional tax, products of their industrial activities and commercial and lesson and possibly of Subvention S.

There exists in many countries of the organizations having similar denominations or missions. In certain cases it is, as in France, of the public agencies. It is also, in many countries, associations of Private law. In this last case, adhesion is voluntary and nonobligatory (see on this subject the article Chamber of commerce and of industry) .

List activities likely to be exerted by the CCI

Service with the companies

  • Center of formalities of the companies

  • Technical assistance with the trade: single in Europe, this trade was created by the Center of studies and of training of the technical assistants of the trade, the services and tourism (cefac) 45 years ago at the request of the ministry for the trade. Integrated in the CCI, this network consists of more than 2000 collaborators, advisers with the service of very the small companies.
  • Technical assistance with industry
  • Technical assistance with the service firms
  • “Not has” (training)

Management of equipment

Training centres

  • National colleges of business
  • Écoles of engineers
  • Training centres of the apprentices
  • Professional training center initial
  • Training center continues

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