A legal entity may be appointed as a director. When appointed, it is required to designate a permanent representative who is subject to the same conditions and obligations and incurs the same civil and criminal liability as if he were a director in his own name, without prejudice to the joint and several liability of the legal entity he represents.
The permanent representative is taken into account when assessing whether the composition of the Board of Directors complies with the first paragraph of article L. 225-18-1. Any appointment made in breach of this paragraph that does not remedy the irregularity in the composition of the Board is null and void. This nullity does not entail the nullity of the deliberations in which the irregularly appointed permanent representative took part.
When the legal entity revokes its representative, it is obliged to provide for his replacement at the same time.