The statistical information that may be collected pursuant to 2° of Article L. 444-5 are, for each calendar year, in particular an estimate :
1° Of the total sums invested necessary for the acquisition of offices, studies or firms, of their breakdown by deciles, and of the average value of the sum invested for the acquisition of an office or study ;
2° Of the total sums other than those mentioned in 1° invested at the time of setting up, their breakdown by deciles, and the average value of the sum invested for a setting up;
3° Of the total cost of covering the risks associated with professional liability, and the average amount of this cost;
4° Of the number and failure rate of practice structures;
5° Of the average values of turnover, profit, tangible fixed assets and working capital requirements per office, study or firm, as well as other accounting indicators specified as necessary by joint order of the Minister of Justice and the Minister responsible for the economy, after obtaining the opinion of the Autorité de la concurrence ;
6° Of the total number of services provided and the total sum of the emoluments received in respect of these services and in the case of lawyers, the breakdown by decile of this number and this sum;
7° For proportional emoluments, of the average amount of the emolument received for a service, and the breakdown by decile of the bases of these emoluments;
8° The total sums received in respect of costs and disbursements, the average amount of the latter and their breakdown by decile;
9° The respective share of emoluments and fees within the profession’s total pre-tax turnover, and, with regard to judicial auctioneers, the average working time devoted to public and ministerial offices and that devoted to the companies mentioned in third paragraph of article 29 of the law of 10 July 2000 regulating voluntary sales of furniture by public auction ;
10° Of the total number of offices, studies or firms, of the total number of professionals practising within these offices or studies on 1 January of the calendar year concerned, and of the number of persons practising the profession concerned therein as employees on that same date.
As regards lawyers, only information relating to the practice structures and professionals having carried out at least one of the procedural acts listed in Table 6 attached to Article R. 444-3.