I.-Any company which does not have a registered office in a Member State of the European Union or another State party to the Agreement on the European Economic Area and which has a branch in France whose turnover exceeds, at the close of two consecutive financial years, a threshold set by decree, shall draw up, publish and make available, at the request of its legal representative in France or the person with the power to bind it there, the report relating to the tax on profits provided for in Article L. 232-6.
II.-The companies mentioned in I are those which meet the following cumulative conditions:
1° They have a legal form comparable to joint stock companies and limited liability companies;
2° They have a turnover which, at the end of two consecutive financial years, exceeds the threshold mentioned in I of article L. 232-6;
3° They neither control nor are controlled by another company, within the meaning of II or III of article L. 233-16.
III.-Where the report or information required under II of Article L. 232-6 is not available, the company’s legal representative in France, or the person with authority to bind the company, shall ask the company to provide all necessary information and shall draw up, publish and make available the report.
If the company does not provide all of this information, its legal representative in France, or the person having the power to bind him/her, draws up the report and incorporates into the report all the information in his/her possession, together with a statement to the effect that the company concerned has not made the required information available to him/her.
The first two paragraphs of this III also apply to any branch of a company which does not have a registered office in a Member State of the European Union or another State party to the Agreement on the European Economic Area, and which has no other purpose than to evade the application of this article.
IV.-Information the disclosure of which would be seriously prejudicial to the commercial position of the companies to which it relates may be omitted from the report referred to in I, on a temporary basis, under conditions laid down by decree in the Conseil d’Etat.
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