Identification numbers are allocated by the Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques to registered legal units and their establishments:
1° Either, for companies, during the procedure for creating or changing their situations provided for in Article L. 123-33;
2° Or, for other legal units, at the request of the person concerned or the administrations and bodies whose list is drawn up by order of the minister responsible for the economy and in accordance with the procedures determined by that same order.