Business & Commerce

#2019-486The Business Growth and Transformation Law

🇫🇷France··Other·High Impact·View source ↗

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🇬🇧 English

This French law streamlines administrative processes for businesses. It introduces a single electronic platform for business declarations, simplifies the registration and procedural requirements for companies, and replaces numerous existing registers with a centralized digital system. The aim is to reduce red tape, save time and costs, and enhance access to business information.

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Key Changes

  • Introduction of a single electronic platform for business declarations
  • Simplification of registration and procedural requirements
  • Creation of a centralized digital system to replace existing registers

Obligations

What this law requires

high

All businesses must declare their creation, modification of situation, or cessation of activities through a single electronic file deposited with a designated unique organism, rather than making multiple separate declarations to different administrations

All enterprises (except those subject to regulated activity access procedures)
operational
high

Businesses must use only the unique identification number assigned by decree when identifying themselves in relations with administrations, public bodies, and entities listed in Article L. 123-32

All enterprises
operational
medium

Businesses cannot be required to indicate identification numbers other than the unique number in business documents including invoices, purchase orders, pricing documents, advertisements, correspondence, and activity receipts

All enterprises
prohibition
high

Service providers within the scope of EU Directive 2006/123/CE must be able to accomplish all procedures and formalities necessary to access and exercise their activity electronically through the designated unique organism

Service providers covered by EU Directive 2006/123/CE
operational
medium

Accounting documents transmitted electronically must be deposited according to procedures established by decree in Council of State

All enterprises with electronic accounting documents
operational

Affected Parties

French businessesPublic administrations

Tags

administration,digitalization,business simplification