French Commercial code
In forceThe identification numbers in the register are communicated to registered legal units and their establishments by the National Institute for Statistics and Economic Studies. In addition, when the identification numbers in the register are requested by a company during the procedure for creating, changing its situation or ceasing its activities provided for in article L. 123-33, they are communicated to the registered legal units via the single body mentioned in the same article.
The information contained in the register and listed in articles R. 123-222 and R. 123-223 shall be communicated, at their request, to the registrars of the commercial courts, the judicial courts with commercial jurisdiction and the judicial courts within the jurisdiction of the Colmar and Metz courts of appeal responsible for keeping the register of commerce and companies, to the Institut national de la propriété industrielle responsible for keeping the national register of commerce and companies, to the regional chambers of trade and craft, and to the administrations or bodies provided for in article R. 123-224. The same information is communicated to registered persons, insofar as such information concerns them.
The provisions of the two preceding paragraphs are applicable to the institutions and services defined in article R. 123-220 as well as to their establishments.
The Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques may make available to the public, in accordance with the procedures defined in articles R. 321-5 to R. 321-7 of the code des relations entre le public et l'administration, the information listed in articles R. 123-222 and R. 123-223 of this code, with the exception of that concerning the legal representatives of legal entities and that indicating the nationality, gender, date and place of birth, date of death, e-mail address and telephone number of natural persons, and that indicating that the legal address or the registered office of the legal unit and the address of an establishment correspond to the personal domicile of the natural person or of a manager of the legal entity or grouping.
The Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques may make available to the administrations defined in 1° of article L. 100-3 of the Code des relations entre le public et l'administration the information contained in the directory and listed in articles R. 123-222 and R. 123-223 of this code, in accordance with the procedures defined in the section 4 of Chapter IV of Title I of Book I of the Code of relations between the public and the administration.
By way of derogation, complete civil status data and the indication that the address of the legal unit or the registered office of the legal unit and the address of an establishment correspond to the personal domicile of the natural person or a manager of the legal unit may not be communicated :
1° Only to the administrative authorities empowered, by virtue of a legislative or regulatory text, to process the procedures and formalities of users or to verify their declaratory situation or compliance with their obligations, in particular in order to combat fraud;
2° That to legal persons under private law who offer online services the use of which requires, in accordance with legislative or regulatory provisions, verification of the identity of users or verification of some of their attributes, and only for services that require such verifications.
