If an approval clause is stipulated, the request for approval indicating the full name and address of the transferee, the number of shares or securities giving access to the capital whose transfer is envisaged and the price offered, shall be notified to the company. Approval results either from notification or from failure to respond within three months of the request.
If the company does not approve the proposed transferee, the Board of Directors, the Management Board or the managers, as the case may be, are required, within three months of notification of the refusal, to arrange for the acquisition of the equity securities or securities giving access to the capital, either by a shareholder or by a third party, or, with the consent of the transferor, by the company with a view to reducing the capital. Failing agreement between the parties, the price of the equity securities or securities giving access to the capital shall be determined in accordance with the conditions set out in article 1843-4 of the Civil Code. The transferor may at any time waive the transfer of his equity securities or securities giving access to the capital. Any clause contrary to article 1843-4 of the said code shall be deemed unwritten.
If, on expiry of the period provided for in the previous paragraph, the purchase has not been made, approval shall be deemed to have been given. However, this period may be extended by court order at the request of the company.