I.-It is punishable by two years’ imprisonment and a fine of 9,000 euros for the chairmen, directors, managing directors or managers of any company:
1° Failing to mention in the annual report presented to the shareholders on the operations of the financial year, an acquisition of a holding in a company having its registered office in the territory of the French Republic representing more than one twentieth, one tenth, one fifth, one third, one half or two thirds of the capital or voting rights at general meetings of that company or the acquisition of control of such a company ;
2° Failing, in the same report, to give an account of the activity and results of the company as a whole, of the company’s subsidiaries and of the companies it controls by branch of activity;
3° Failing to include in the company’s notes to the accounts the table provided for in Article L. 233-15 and containing information with a view to showing the situation of the said subsidiaries and holdings.
II.-A fine of 9,000 euros shall be imposed on members of the management board, board of directors or managers of the companies referred to in article L. 233-16, subject to the exemptions provided for in article L. 233-17, not to draw up and send to the shareholders or members, within the periods provided for by law, the consolidated accounts. The court may also order the judgment to be published, at the convicted person’s expense, in one or more newspapers.
III.-The penalties referred to in I shall apply if the statutory auditor fails to include in his report the information referred to in 1° of I of this article.
The penalties referred to in I shall apply if the statutory auditor fails to include in his report the information referred to in 1° of I of this article.