An individual may not simultaneously hold more than five offices as a member of the supervisory board of public limited companies having their registered office on French territory.
By way of derogation from the provisions of the first paragraph, the offices of member of the supervisory board or director held by this person in controlled companies within the meaning of Article L. 233-16 by the company of which it is already a member of the supervisory board.
For the application of the provisions of this article, the terms of office as member of the supervisory board of companies whose securities are not admitted to trading on a regulated market and which are controlled within the meaning of article L. 233-16 by the same company only count as one term of office, provided that the number of terms of office held in this capacity does not exceed five.
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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