UNC'app

The National Union of CARPAs (UNCA) via UNC’app provides information to lawyers on the ecosystem of Lawyers' Monetary Settlements Funds (CARPA).

In application of its statutes and legal missions (law n ° 91-647 of July 10, 1991) and regulations (decree n ° 91-1197 of November 27, 1991 organizing the profession of lawyer and its decree of July 5, 1996 - decree no. ° 91-1266 of December 19, 1991 relating to legal aid - decree n ° 96-887 of October 10, 1996) entrusted to it, the Unca, created in 1975 federates the French Carpa () in order in particular to:

• To assist them in the implementation of the means necessary for the execution of their statutory purpose
• To assist them in the service of collective interests and the general interest by making available to them, in particular, the technical elements necessary for the exercise of the legal profession in a shared framework
• To assist them in the public service missions conferred on them by legislative and regulatory texts
• To represent the Carpa before the public authorities
• To promote the Carpa concept abroad
• To defend their common interests

Unca also provides institutions of the legal profession, bar associations and lawyers, with services relating to its main activities carried out within the framework of the legislative and regulatory provisions in force () or derived from them. ci, when his expertise is requested by the representative bodies of the legal profession or by the public authorities.

() The texts below are available on the Legifrance website and on the www.unca.fr website:

• Law n ° 71-1130 of December 31, 1971 reforming certain judicial and legal professions
• Decree n ° 91-1197 of November 27, 1991 organizing the legal profession
• Order of July 5, 1996 setting the rules applicable to deposits and handling of funds, bills or securities received by lawyers on behalf of their clients
• Law n ° 91-647 of July 10, 1991 relating to legal aid
• Decree No. 91-1266 of December 19, 1991 implementing Law No. 91-647 of July 10, 1991 on legal aid
• Decree n ° 96-887 of October 10, 1996 laying down model regulations relating to the rules of financial and accounting management of funds paid by the State to the pecuniary settlements of lawyers for legal aid missions and for legal aid. intervention of the lawyer provided for by the provisions of the third part of the law of July 10, 1991.

() The Carpa's missions are entrusted by law:

• To control the conformity of fund handling operations carried out by lawyers (law of December 31, 1971 reforming certain judicial and legal professions, decree n ° 91-1197 of November 27, 1991 organizing the profession of lawyer and its decree of July 5, 1996 and Monetary and Financial Code article L 562-1 and following as subject to the fight against money laundering and the financing of terrorism)
• To remunerate the lawyers who intervene for the assisted sector of legal aid and other aids to the intervention of the lawyer ((law n ° 91-647 of July 10, 1991, decree n ° 91-1266 of December 19 1991 relating to legal aid and decree n ° 96-887 of 10 October 1996).