Where the company is thus annulled, the founders to whom the nullity is attributable and the directors or members of the Management Board in office at the time the nullity was incurred shall be jointly and severally liable to third parties and to the members for the loss or damage resulting from such annulment.
If, in order to cover the nullity, a General Meeting has to be convened, the action for nullity is no longer admissible from the date on which the meeting is duly convened.
An action for nullity of the company or of acts and deliberations subsequent to its incorporation is extinguished when the cause of the nullity ceased to exist before the application was lodged or, in any event, from the date on which the court rules on the merits at first instance. Notwithstanding such regularisation, the costs of nullity actions brought previously shall be borne by the defendants.
The court hearing an action for nullity may, even of its own motion, set a time limit for covering nullities.
An action in respect of liability for the facts from which the nullity arose shall also cease to be admissible where the cause of the nullity has ceased to exist, either before the action was brought, or on the day on which the court rules on the merits at first instance, or within a period set to cover the nullity, and, in addition, three years have elapsed since the day on which the nullity was incurred.
The aforementioned nullity actions are time-barred after five years.