French Commercial code
In forceTransactions for the purpose of adapting the lessee's rights to the useful load of his fleet of vehicles where the total transport capacity thus obtained by the lessee is less than the useful load of his fleet of vehicles shall not be considered as a lease of goodwill, within the meaning of article
L. 144-1, operations whose purpose is to adapt the lessee's rights to the useful load of his vehicle fleet when the total transport capacity thus obtained by the lessee does not exceed five tonnes for public goods transport or sixty passenger seats for occasional passenger services and when the rentals, for a single lessor, total no more than ten tonnes or sixty passenger seats and remain less than half the total amount of the rights of this lessor.
Neither are reciprocal leases whose purpose is to facilitate the operation of businesses and granted, for each of the parties, within the limit of ten tonnes for the public transport of goods or the leasing of industrial vehicles or sixty passenger seats for occasional passenger services considered as leases of goodwill.
Articles L. 144-1 to L. 144-13 do not apply to agreements concluded on a provisional basis by operators of regular passenger services for the organisation of their respective services, with the agreement of the authorities.
