Paragraph 1: Organisation.

The following may join the caisses de crédit agricole mutuel:

1° Agricultural cooperative societies and associations thereof;

2° Associations syndicales with an exclusively agricultural purpose, their unions and land associations;

3° Agricultural collective interest companies;

4° Professional agricultural unions, livestock companies, agricultural associations recognised by law and dependent on the Ministry of Agriculture whose purpose is to promote agricultural production, as well as their unions and federations;

5° Caisses d'assurances et de réassurances mutuelles agricoles et les caisses mutuelles d'allocations familiales agricoles, les caisses d'assurances sociales agricoles ainsi que les caisses d'assurance vieillesse agricole ;

6° Allotment garden organisations;

7° On the one hand, agricultural holdings with limited liability, and on the other hand, non-trading companies whose purpose is the joint exploitation of agricultural and forestry assets and the use of the products of these holdings, formed between the owners of such assets and, where applicable, their employees and workers ;

8° Chambers of Agriculture and Chambres d'Agriculture France ;

9° Municipalities, associations of municipalities and departments;

10° Agricultural teaching, vocational training or educational establishments and agronomic research institutes, set up as public establishments or approved under the conditions laid down by an order of the Minister of Agriculture;

11° The organisations mentioned in Section 3 of Chapter 2 of Title I of Book I of the Rural and Maritime Fishing Code;

12° The intervention bodies mentioned in Title II of Decree no. 53-974 of 30 September 1953;

13° Le groupement interprofessionnel des fleurs et des plantes à parfum créé par la loi n° 41-3408 du 16 juillet 1941 ;

14° The mixed syndicates provided for in Book VII of Part 5 of the General Code of Local Authorities;

15° semi-public companies set up with the participation of local public authorities, as provided for in articles L. 1521-1 et seq. of the General Local Authorities Code;

16° Associations, companies and establishments with an agricultural purpose or interest that have received special approval from Crédit Agricole's central body;

17° Agricultural mutual guarantee cooperatives.