Chapter II: Approval and declaration of legal entities and sole traders

Approval for the legal entities or sole traders referred to in Article L. 7232-1 is granted by the Prefect of the département where the legal entity or sole trader’s main establishment is located. When this approval is requested under 1° of article L. 7232-1, the president of the departmental council gives an opinion on the ability of the legal entities or individual entrepreneurs requesting approval to provide a quality service…

If the legal entity or sole trader plans to carry out the activity referred to in 1° of article L. 7232-1 in several départements, the prefect of the département where the legal entity or sole trader’s main establishment is located shall seek the opinion of the presidents of the département councils of the départements concerned, via the territorially competent prefects. Any application to extend approval to a new activity or…

The Prefect grants approval when the following conditions are met: 1° The legal entity or sole trader has, either on its own or within the network to which it belongs, the human, material and financial resources to enable it to fulfil the purpose for which approval is sought; 2° The applicant for approval undertakes to comply with a set of specifications approved by order of the Minister for the Economy…

Approval is granted for a period of five years.

Applications for renewal must be submitted no later than three months before the end of the approval period to the Prefect of the département in which the main establishment of the legal entity or sole trader is located. Each approved and certified organisation will automatically have its previous approval renewed, provided that all its activities and establishments are covered by a certification as defined in article L. 433-3 of the…

At least every quarter, the approved legal entity or sole trader produces a statement of activity and every year a qualitative and quantitative assessment of the activity carried out over the past year, as well as an annual statistical table. These documents are sent electronically to the Prefect, who makes them available to the Minister for the Economy. Otherwise, they are sent in paper form to the Prefect, who forwards…

The authorisation issued to a legal entity or sole trader with several establishments may be modified if one of its establishments falls into one of the cases of withdrawal mentioned in article R. 7232-12.