Chapter III: General obligations of traders

Any trader is automatically struck off the register if: 1° He is prohibited from carrying on a commercial activity by virtue of a court decision that has become final or an enforceable administrative decision; 2° He has been deceased for more than one year, unless a declaration has been made under the conditions provided for in 6° and 7° of article R. 123-46. In the latter case, deregistration is carried…

Any trader or legal entity shall be struck off automatically: 1° As from the closure of proceedings, either for bankruptcy, liquidation of assets due to insufficient assets or dissolution of the union, or judicial liquidation due to insufficient assets; 2° At the end of the period of one year following the entry in the register of the total cessation of its activity, except in the case of legal entities that…

When the registrar who carried out the main registration of a legal entity that may be subject to dissolution notes, after a period of two years following the entry in the register of the total cessation of activity of this entity, the absence of any amending entry relating to a resumption of activity, he may proceed, after having informed the legal entity by registered letter with acknowledgement of receipt sent…

Any legal entity is automatically struck off the register, after a notice of its dissolution has been entered in the register, at the end of the period set by the Articles of Association for the duration of the liquidation or, failing this, at the end of a period of three years after the date of such notice. However, the liquidator may apply for an extension of the registration by means…

The registrar who deregisters a registration shall require without delay: 1° If it concerns a principal registration, the deregistration of the corresponding secondary registrations, except in the case of transfer of the principal place of business for traders, or of the registered office or first place of business in a department for legal entities; 2° If it concerns a secondary registration, the amendment of the corresponding particulars entered on the…

The information provided for in 1° of article R. 123-124 shall be struck off automatically: 1° When a decision of rehabilitation, removal of incapacity or amnesty occurs, removing the incapacity or prohibition; 2° When the end of the prohibition set by the court pursuant to Article L. 653-11; 3° Where the executive who is the subject of an incapacity or prohibition no longer performs his duties.

The deregistrations provided for in articles R. 123-132 and R. 123-133 are also carried out automatically at the places of secondary registrations upon notification by the registrar of the main registration; this notification is made within fifteen days of the date of the main deregistration.

The entries relating to the decisions referred to in Article R. 123-122 when: 1° Safeguard proceedings have been terminated pursuant to Article L. 622-12 ; 2° Reorganisation proceedings have been terminated pursuant to Article L. 631-16 ; 3° Completion of the implementation of the safeguard or recovery plan has been recorded pursuant to Article L. 626-28 ; 4° The safeguard plan is still in progress at the end of a…

When the registrar has entered a notice of cessation of business in the register pursuant to article R. 123-125, it shall automatically remove from the register any person who has not remedied the situation within three months of the entry of this notice .

When the registrar has entered in the register a request to regularise the file in application of article R. 123-125-1, he shall automatically strike off the name of the person who has not regularised his situation, at the end of a period of one month from the entry of this note. .