BOOK I: Commerce in general.

Unless the first two paragraphs of article L. 613-4 of the Social Security Code apply, the cessation of companies, whether natural or legal persons, subject to registration in the National Register of Companies, may only be indicated when the company has been struck off this register.

No legal effect attaches to the identification or non-identification of a legal unit registered in the register. It remains subject to any legislative, regulatory or contractual obligation relating to the exercise of its activity.

The identification numbers in the register are communicated to registered legal units and their establishments by the National Institute for Statistics and Economic Studies. In addition, when the identification numbers in the register are requested by a company during the procedure for creating, changing its situation or ceasing its activities provided for in article L. 123-33, they are communicated to the registered legal units via the single body mentioned in…

If a legal representative of a legal unit objects to this data being made available to the public for canvassing purposes pursuant to paragraph 2 of Article 21 of Regulation (EU) 2016/679 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 27 April 2016 on the protection of individuals with regard to the processing of personal data and on the free movement of such data, his objection shall be brought…

The public administrations defined in 1° of article L. 100-3 of the code of relations between the public and the administration are required to use the directory identity number exclusively in all correspondence, if the subject of this correspondence requires the registered legal units and their establishments as defined in article R. 123-220.

In accordance with article R. 123-220 any legal unit, institution or service shall mention in its correspondence with the administrations or bodies defined in 1° of article L. 100-3 of the code of relations between the public and the administration, the identification number as soon as it is notified and, when the correspondence more specifically concerns one or more of its establishments, the number(s) of the latter.

The Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques is authorised to use the national register for the identification of natural persons to certify, and where necessary to bring into line, the civil status of the legal representatives of legal units registered in the national register for the identification of companies and their establishments. .

The Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques is authorised to verify and, if necessary, correct the address of establishments on the basis of geographical references. It may supplement the address with geographical identifiers and topographical coordinates.