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What legal structures to carry digital commons? #Introduction

#3 - Practical Sheet: The governance and legal model of a GIP structuring a digital commons

Published on 07 December 2022

Summary

« The public law regime of the GIP can be an obstacle to the adhesion of private actors »

Mathias Murmylo - BFC Digital Territory

Recommendation 1

Mobilize the Guide to GIPs developed under the direction of the General Directorate of Public Finance and hosted on the DAJ website.

Recommendation 2

Identify and share ILGs whose constitution (and completion of the constitutive file) can serve as an example.

Recommendation 3

Secure legal expertise as an in-kind contribution from a GIP member by amending Article 7.1 Contributions ("Statutory contributions may be [...] non-financial contributions in the form of know-how, skills or expertise, particularly legal and accounting expertise, useful for the creation and management of the grouping.")

Recommendation 4

Request an accounting officer at the start of the project.

Recommendation 5

To set up a community of GIPs to be able to exchange on common problems; but also to mutualize certain financing (consultations, etc.).

« Pooling the financing of the use of certain expertise (legal consultations, etc.) could be a relevant solution »

Jérôme Notin - ACYMA

Recommendation 6

Compile a list of expert (human) resources that can be mobilized.

Recommendation 7

Anticipate the risk of paralysis as soon as the collective constitution is drafted, and propose innovative ways of making decisions. Before drafting, test several scenarios of decisions to be taken in a general assembly where there would be major disagreements.

Recommendation 8

Provide for the creation of a board of directors in the founding agreement. The model constitutive agreement hosted by the DAJ provides for this constitution in article 17.

Recommendation 9

Balance the powers of the General Assembly and the Board of Directors, so that the former is responsible for the major orientations, and the latter for day-to-day management1. Particular attention will therefore be paid to the wording of articles 16.2 and 17.2. The distribution proposed in the model constitutive agreement hosted by the DAJ is an ideal working basis.

Recommendation 10

To adapt the decision-making procedures of the General Assembly as provided for in Article 16.2.

Recommendation 11

Circumscribe the constitutive agreement to the legal minimum, detailed in Sheet No. 2 of the GIP Guide.

Recommendation 12

Draft internal regulations that complete the constitutive agreement and detail the governance of the deliberative bodies (general assembly and board of directors).

Recommendation 13

Establish a community facilitator within the GIP.

Recommendation 14

To institute via an article 18 a technical committee composed of contributors to the common and whose opinion - ideally binding - must be solicited by the board of directors regarding certain specific issues.

Recommendation 15

Integrate into Article 2 - Purpose and Territorial Scope a 3rd paragraph stating that "Members commit to operate according to the principle of agile development methodologies, with a prevalence of user feedback" and detail the methodologies retained in Title IV - Miscellaneous Provisions.

What legal structures to carry digital commons? #Introduction

#3 - Practical Sheet: The governance and legal model of a GIP structuring a digital commons

« The public law regime of the GIP can be an obstacle to the adhesion of private actors »

Mathias Murmylo - BFC Digital Territory

Recommendation 1

Mobilize the Guide to GIPs developed under the direction of the General Directorate of Public Finance and hosted on the DAJ website.

Recommendation 2

Identify and share ILGs whose constitution (and completion of the constitutive file) can serve as an example.

Recommendation 3

Secure legal expertise as an in-kind contribution from a GIP member by amending Article 7.1 Contributions ("Statutory contributions may be [...] non-financial contributions in the form of know-how, skills or expertise, particularly legal and accounting expertise, useful for the creation and management of the grouping.")

Recommendation 4

Request an accounting officer at the start of the project.

Recommendation 5

To set up a community of GIPs to be able to exchange on common problems; but also to mutualize certain financing (consultations, etc.).

« Pooling the financing of the use of certain expertise (legal consultations, etc.) could be a relevant solution »

Jérôme Notin - ACYMA

Recommendation 6

Compile a list of expert (human) resources that can be mobilized.

Recommendation 7

Anticipate the risk of paralysis as soon as the collective constitution is drafted, and propose innovative ways of making decisions. Before drafting, test several scenarios of decisions to be taken in a general assembly where there would be major disagreements.

Recommendation 8

Provide for the creation of a board of directors in the founding agreement. The model constitutive agreement hosted by the DAJ provides for this constitution in article 17.

Recommendation 9

Balance the powers of the General Assembly and the Board of Directors, so that the former is responsible for the major orientations, and the latter for day-to-day management1. Particular attention will therefore be paid to the wording of articles 16.2 and 17.2. The distribution proposed in the model constitutive agreement hosted by the DAJ is an ideal working basis.

Recommendation 10

To adapt the decision-making procedures of the General Assembly as provided for in Article 16.2.

Recommendation 11

Circumscribe the constitutive agreement to the legal minimum, detailed in Sheet No. 2 of the GIP Guide.

Recommendation 12

Draft internal regulations that complete the constitutive agreement and detail the governance of the deliberative bodies (general assembly and board of directors).

Recommendation 13

Establish a community facilitator within the GIP.

Recommendation 14

To institute via an article 18 a technical committee composed of contributors to the common and whose opinion - ideally binding - must be solicited by the board of directors regarding certain specific issues.

Recommendation 15

Integrate into Article 2 - Purpose and Territorial Scope a 3rd paragraph stating that "Members commit to operate according to the principle of agile development methodologies, with a prevalence of user feedback" and detail the methodologies retained in Title IV - Miscellaneous Provisions.