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This agreement saw the resolution of an impasse whereby the Vatican had refused to recognise the Associations Cultuelles voted in the 1905 legislation in the spirit of the 1901 [[Loi sur les Associations]] and accepted by the Jewish and Protestant religious bodies. The agreement made possible the forming of Associations Diocésaines with members appointed by the bishops.
In the case of the [[Concordat]] dioceses of [[Strasbourg]] and [[Metz]] it is the [[French President]] who, after consultations with the Vatican, makes the appointments
The Briand-Ceretti agreement was posterior to the forced retirement of the saintly Benedictine bishop of Metz, Benzer, in 1919 and only provides a very vague analogy for the depositions at the Liberation.
Among the many consequences of this agreement was the reluctance to appoint ordinaries likely to call into question the spoliations and expropriations that the French church underwent between 1790 and 1905. The veto has been rarely used but its existence induces caution in [[nunciature]] circles when proposing candidates. Disagreements are known from time to time to occur (e.g. a reference by the former ambassador to the Vatican Jean Guégenou on France-Culture on 13 July 2009). The system also indirectly ensures that, almost without exception, [[French citizens]] alone are employed in Catholic administration and schools in France.
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