Subject to the provisions relating to the contribution of business assets to a company set out in articles L. 141-21 and L. 141-22, any sale or transfer of business assets, whether or not made conditionally or in the form of another contract, as well as any allocation of business assets by partition or auction, is, unless it occurs pursuant to article L. 642-5, within fifteen days of its date, published at the purchaser’s request in a medium authorised to receive legal announcements in the department in which the business is operated and in the form of an extract or notice in the Bulletin officiel des annonces civiles et commerciales. In the case of fairground businesses, the place of operation is the place where the seller is entered in the trade and company register.