The Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques is responsible for maintaining a national register including, where they are covered by the National Business Register, or employ salaried staff, are subject to corporate tax obligations or seek public financial transfers:
1° Natural persons who are self-employed in a self-employed capacity or in an ancillary activity, and whose income is subject to taxation as industrial and commercial profits, or non-commercial profits, or to value added tax;
Individual employers, with the exception of self-employed persons, who are subject to taxation as industrial and commercial profits, or non-commercial profits, or to value added tax
2° Individual employers, with the exception of those whose employees carry out:
a) The personal services activities defined in article L. 7231-1 du code du travail;
b) Childcare activities in accordance with the procedures set out in the article L. 421-1 du code de l’action sociale et des familles;
c) Reception activities for adults carried out in accordance with the procedures set out in article L. 442-1 du code de l’action sociale et des familles;
d) The activities of domestic help under the conditions mentioned in 3° of Article L. 722-20 of the French Rural and Maritime Fishing Code;
e) The artistic activities mentioned in the article L. 7121-2 du code du travail;
3° Non-professional furnished lettings;
4° Legal entities governed by public or private law;
5° Institutions and departments of the State and local authorities;
5° bis Single taxable persons for value added tax purposes mentioned in the article 256 C du code général des impôts;
6° De facto companies, joint ventures and other private law groupings without legal personality;
7° The establishments of all the entities listed above;
Legal entities in formation are registered in the national register mentioned in the first paragraph;
An order of the Minister for the Economy specifies the procedures for registration in the register and the allocation of a unique identification number, the period for which the data collected is kept, as well as the conditions for informing the persons concerned and those for exercising their rights relating to access, rectification, limitation and portability of their data.