I. – For the purposes of calculating free transfer duties, in the event of a gift in full ownership of a craft business, a business, an agricultural business or the customer base of a sole proprietorship or the shares or stocks of a company, an allowance of €300,000 is applied, at the option of the donee, to the value of the business or customer base or to the fraction of the value of the securities representing the business or customer base, if the following conditions are met:
a) The business or company carries on an industrial, commercial, craft, agricultural or liberal profession activity;
b) The gift is made to persons holding an employment contract of indefinite duration for at least two years and who carry out their duties on a full-time basis, or an apprenticeship contract in force on the day of the transfer, entered into with the business whose business or customer base is transferred or with the company whose shares or stocks are transferred ;
c) Repealed;
d) When acquired for valuable consideration, the business or customer base mentioned above must have been held for more than two years by the donor or the company;
e) Where the transfer relates to shares acquired for valuable consideration, these must have been held for more than two years by the donor;
f) For five years following the date of the transfer, the donees are effectively and continuously carrying on, as their sole professional activity, the business of the business or customer base transferred or the business of the company whose shares are transferred and one of whom is effectively managing the business for the same period. In the event that the company is the subject of judicial liquidation proceedings under Title IV of Book VI of the Commercial Code within five years of the date of the transfer, the preferential treatment provided for in the first paragraph shall not lapse.
II. – Where the donees have exercised the option provided for in I, the benefit of its provisions is exclusive of the application of Article 787 B on the fraction of the value of the shares representing assets other than the craft business, the business, the farm business or the customer base, and of Article 787 C in respect of the gift to the same person of assets other than the craft business, the business, the farm business or the customer base, allocated to the operation of the business.
III. – I may only be applied once between the same donor and the same donee.