The cooperative companies and unions of cooperative companies of craftsmen, as well as the cooperative companies and unions of cooperative companies of boatmen, are exempt from the business property tax, when these different bodies are constituted and operate in accordance with the legislative and regulatory provisions that govern them.
The exemption provided for in the first paragraph does not apply to cooperative societies and unions of cooperative societies whose shares are admitted to trading on a regulated market or offered to the public on a multilateral trading facility subject to the provisions of II of Article L. 433-3 of the Monetary and Financial Code or at least 20% of whose capital is held by non-cooperating members within the meaning of 1 quinquies of article 207 of this code and holders of cooperative investment certificates where the articles of association provide that they may be remunerated.