BOOK I: Commerce in general.

In its application for registration, the company declares, as regards the legal entity: 1° Its corporate name or denomination followed, where applicable, by its acronym; 2° Its legal form specifying, where applicable, the fact that the company has a single shareholder and, where applicable, an indication of the special legal status to which the company is subject; 3° The amount of its share capital; if the capital is variable, the…

The company also declares: 1° The surname, usual name, pseudonym, first names and personal domicile of the partners who are indefinitely liable or indefinitely and jointly liable for the company’s debts, their date and place of birth, and their nationality; 2° Depending on the legal form, the surname, usual name, pseudonym, first names, date and place of birth, personal domicile and nationality of: a) Managers, chairmen, managing directors, deputy managing…

The spouse of the sole managing partner or majority managing partner of a société à responsabilité limitée or a société d’exercice libéral à responsabilité limitée, or the person bound to him by a civil solidarity pact, is entered in the register of commerce and companies under the conditions defined by this book.

The following shall also be declared in the application for registration: 1° For companies resulting from a merger or demerger, the corporate name or denomination, legal form and registered office of all the companies involved, as well as, in respect of each of them, the information provided for in 1° and 2° of Article R. 123-237; 2° For European companies resulting from a merger, the name, legal form and registered…

When a commercial company whose registered office is located abroad is subject to the legislation of another Member State of the European Community or party to the Agreement on the European Economic Area and has one of the legal forms listed in annex 1-3 to this book, only the information provided for in 1°, 2°, 8° and 9° of article R. 123-53 and in article R. 123-54, as well as…

Where a commercial company whose registered office is abroad is not subject to the legislation of a Member State of the European Community or party to the Agreement on the European Economic Area, but has a legal form comparable to those set out in Annex 1-3 to this book, are declared, in addition to the information provided for in articles R. 123-53 to R. 123-56, the legislation applicable to it,…

The following shall be declared in the application for registration of a company, with regard to its activity and establishment, or its registered office if it has no establishment: 1° In the case of a commercial company, the information provided for in Article R. 123-38 ; 2° If it is a commercial company whose registered office is abroad within the meaning of article R. 123-57, the information provided for in…