LMP Status: Mandatory Registration with the French Trade and Companies Register Held Unconstitutional

Written by, Séphora Amsellem on February 8, 2019

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The French Constitutional Court ruled that the requirement of the registration of a Loueur Meublé Professionnel (professional lessor of furnished property) with the French Trade and Company Registrar is unconstitutional. In fact, the rental activity of a furnished property is not considered as a commercial transaction in the meaning of Article L. 110-1 of the French Commercial Code. As a result, such requirement is no longer needed to be an LMP.   

(Constitutional Court, 8 February 2019, n° 2017-689)