Chapter IV: Provisions applicable after registration of the company resulting from the cross-border transaction

When a company resulting from a cross-border merger is registered, the agreement referred to in Article L. 2372-6 or a collective agreement concluded at the appropriate level may decide to abolish or to adjust the operating conditions, possibly in the form of a redefinition of their national scope of operation, of the staff representative bodies which would disappear as a result of the loss of the legal autonomy of one…

Where an employee participation system exists in the company resulting from the cross-border operation, that company shall be required, for a period of four years after the cross-border operation, to take the measures necessary to protect employee participation in the event of subsequent national operations in accordance with the rules laid down in this Title.

The employees’ representatives sitting on the administrative or supervisory body, or participating in the general meeting or in the section or branch meetings of the company resulting from the cross-border operation, are bound by the professional secrecy and obligation of discretion provided for in Article L. 2315-3.

Employee representatives sitting on the administrative or supervisory body, or participating in the general meeting or in the section or branch meetings of the company resulting from the cross-border operation, benefit from the protection instituted by Article L. 2411-1.