The penalty referred to in Article L. 1142-10 may not be applied to the company until three years have elapsed from the publication of a result level of less than seventy-five points. If it achieves a result level at least equal to seventy-five points before the expiry of this period, it is granted a further period of three years to implement corrective measures from the year in which a result level lower than this number is published.
Companies with fewer than fifty employees whose workforce reaches fifty have three years to apply the provisions of the first paragraph of article D. 1142-4 and articles D. 1142-5 to D. 1142-6-2. The methods for calculating the number of employees are those set out in articles L. 1111-2, L. 1111-3 and L. 1251-54.