I.-Communes or their public establishments for inter-communal cooperation with their own tax status may, by a deliberation of general scope taken under the conditions defined in Article 1639 A bis, exempt from the business property tax:
1° From the year following that of their establishment, doctors as well as medical auxiliaries mentioned in Book I and Book III of Part Four of the Public Health Code and subject to income tax in the non-commercial profits category who, exercising their activity on a self-employed basis, establish themselves or regroup in a commune with fewer than 2,000 inhabitants or a commune located in one of the rural regeneration zones defined in Article 1465 A ;
2° From the year following that of their establishment, doctors as well as medical auxiliaries mentioned in 1° who, exercising their activity on a self-employed basis, establish themselves or group together on a site distinct from their usual professional residence and located in a commune meeting the conditions of the same 1° or in an area characterised by an insufficient supply of care or by difficulties in access to care within the meaning of article L. 1434-4 du code de la santé publique;
3° Veterinarians authorised by the administrative authority as health veterinarians within the meaning of article L. 203-1 of the Code rural et de la pêche maritime (Rural and Maritime Fishing Code), provided that this authorisation concerns at least five hundred bovine animals over two years old under compulsory prophylaxis or equivalent ovine or caprine animals.
The deliberation may relate to one or more of the categories mentioned in 1° to 3°.
The deliberation relates to the entire share accruing to each commune or public establishment for inter-communal cooperation with its own tax system and sets the duration of the exemptions, which may not be less than two years or more than five years.
The exemption does not apply to business start-ups resulting from a transfer, where the taxpayer has, in respect of one or more of the five years preceding that of the transfer, benefited from the exemption in respect of setting up in a rural regeneration zone.
To benefit from the exemption, the doctors, medical auxiliaries and veterinary surgeons referred to in 1° to 3° must provide the necessary evidence to the relevant tax department before 1 January of the year following that in which they set up.
II.-The benefit of the exemptions is subject to compliance with Commission Regulation (EU) No 1407/2013 of 18 December 2013 on the application of Articles 107 and 108 of the Treaty on the Functioning of the European Union to de minimis aid.