Cross-border division is the operation whereby a société par actions or a société à responsabilité limitée with its registered office in France participates in a division with one or more companies falling within the scope of paragraph 1 of Article 160b of Directive EU 2017/1132 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 14 June 2017 on certain aspects of company law and governed by the law of one or more other Member States of the European Union.
This transaction is subject to the provisions of this sub-section as well as those of sub-section 1 of this section and those of section 2 of this chapter, with the exception of the second paragraph of Article L. 236-22, which are not contrary to them.