French Commercial code
In forceThe application for registration of a company is submitted collectively by the partners or by those of the partners practising within the company or by the company's legal representative. It is sent to the Commission nationale d'inscription et de discipline by registered letter with acknowledgement of receipt or delivered against receipt.
It is accompanied by a file which includes, on pain of inadmissibility of the application:
1° A copy of the company's articles of association;
2° A copy of the decision to register each partner practising within the company on the national list;
3° A certificate from the clerk of the commercial court of the location of the company's registered office, stating that the application and the documents required for the company's subsequent registration with the trade and companies register have been filed with the clerk's office;
4° A list of the partners practising as judicial administrators or judicial representatives within the company, with their surnames, first names and domiciles;
5° In the case of an application to register a liberal practice company, part of the share capital of which is held by partners mentioned in 6° of B of I of the article 5 of law no. 90-1258 of 31 December 1990 relating to the practice in the form of companies of liberal professions subject to legislative or regulatory status or whose title is protected, the list of these partners specifying for each of them their surname, forenames, domicile and profession, the share of capital they hold and, if the partner is a legal entity, the company name or name, the registered office and the share of capital that this legal entity holds ;
6° In the case of an application to register a company as provided for in the second paragraph of Article L. 811-7 or Article L. 812-5 or a société pluri-professionnelle d'exercice provided for in Article L. 811-7-1-A ou à l'article L. 812-5-1-A, other than that referred to in 5°, the list of members who do not practise as judicial administrators or judicial representatives specifying for each of them their surname, forenames, domicile and profession, the share of capital that they hold and, if the member is a legal entity, the name or corporate name, registered office and the share of the share capital that this legal entity holds, as well as any information making it possible to establish that the capital holding requirements provided for by the aforementioned Law of 31 December 1990 are met ;
7° Where applicable, a copy of the resolution of the shareholders' meeting authorising the legal representative to apply for registration.
The Government Commissioner shall request bulletin no. 2 of the criminal record of the partners and members of the management, executive, administrative or supervisory bodies who are not an administrator or judicial representative.
