I. – Every joint-stock company is required to file with the court registry, to be appended to the register of commerce and companies, within one month of the approval of the annual accounts by the general meeting of shareholders or within two months of such approval when such filing is made by electronic means:
1° The annual financial statements, the management report, the statutory auditors’ report on the annual financial statements, if any, supplemented by their comments on the amendments made by the meeting to the annual financial statements that have been submitted to the meeting and, if any, the consolidated financial statements, the group management report, the statutory auditors’ report on the consolidated financial statements and the supervisory board’s report;
2° The proposed appropriation of income submitted to the meeting and the appropriation resolution passed.
An exception to the obligation to file the management report is made for companies mentioned in the first paragraph other than those whose securities are admitted to trading on a regulated market or a multilateral trading facility subject to the provisions of II of Article L. 433-3 of the Monetary and Financial Code under the conditions set out in the General Regulation of the Autorité des marchés financiers. However, the management report must be made available to any person who so requests, in accordance with the conditions defined by decree of the Conseil d’Etat.
II. – In the event of a refusal to approve the annual financial statements, a copy of the deliberation of the meeting shall be filed within the same period.
III.-Companies which, with the Autorité des marchés financiers, file or submit for registration a registration document or a universal registration document provided for by Regulation (EU) No 2017/1129 of 14 June 2017, may, within the periods provided for in the first paragraph of I, also file it with the court registry.
This filing is equivalent to the filing of the documents referred to in 1° and 2° of I, where the latter are included in the registration document or the universal registration document. The registration document or the universal registration document shall include a table enabling the Registrar to identify them.
The documents referred to in 1° and 2° of I that are not contained in the registration document or universal registration document or whose identification is not possible using the table referred to in the previous paragraph are filed at the same time as the latter at the court registry.