I. – For the purposes of calculating registration duties in the event of a transfer of full ownership of a craft business, a business, an agricultural business or the customer base of a sole proprietorship or shares in a company, an allowance of €300,000 is applied to the value of the business or customer base or to the fraction of the value of the securities representing the business or customer base, if the following conditions are met:
1° The business or company carries on an industrial, commercial, craft, agricultural or liberal activity, with the exception of the management of its own movable or immovable assets;
2° The sale is granted:
a) Either to the holder of an employment contract of indefinite duration for at least two years and who carries out his duties on a full-time basis, or of an apprenticeship contract in force on the day of the sale, entered into with the business whose business or customer base is being sold or with the company whose shares or stocks are being sold;
b) Or to the assignor’s spouse, partner bound by a civil solidarity pact as defined in article 515-1 of the Civil Code, direct ascendants or descendants or brothers and sisters;
3° Where the sale relates to business or customers or shares acquired for valuable consideration, these have been held for more than two years by the vendor;
4° The purchasers continue, as their sole professional activity and effectively and continuously, for five years following the date of the sale, the operation of the business or customers transferred or the activity of the company whose shares are transferred and one of them ensures, for the same period, the effective management of the business. In the event that the company is the subject of a judgement opening judicial liquidation proceedings under Title IV of Book VI of the Commercial Code within five years of the date of the transfer, the scheme provided for in the first paragraph shall not lapse.
II. – I may only be applied once between the same transferor and the same purchaser.