An individual may not simultaneously hold more than one office as chief executive officer of sociétés anonymes having their registered office on French territory.
As an exception to the provisions of the first paragraph:
a second term of office as chief executive officer or a term of office as member of the management board or sole chief executive officer may be held in a controlled company within the meaning of Article L. 233-16 by the company of which he is chief executive officer;
-an individual holding a position as chief executive officer in a company may also hold a position as chief executive officer, member of the management board or sole chief executive officer in a company, provided that the securities of the latter are not admitted to trading on a regulated market.
Any natural person who finds himself in breach of the provisions of this article must resign from one of his offices within three months of his appointment, or from the office in question within three months of the event that led to the disappearance of one of the conditions set out in the previous paragraph. On expiry of this period, the director is deemed to have resigned, as the case may be, either from his new office or from the office no longer meeting the conditions set out in the previous paragraph, and must return any remuneration received, without the validity of the deliberations in which he took part being thereby called into question.
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