What is the legal definition of an entrepreneur according to Article 2082?
A person who professionally conducts an organized economic activity producing or exchanging goods or services.
What distinguishes a professional activity from an occasional one?
It must be habitual rather than occasional.
Can a professional activity be seasonal or combined with another activity?
Yes, if it recurs over time.
What does an economic activity produce for the market?
Goods or services.
What financial condition must an economic activity theoretically meet?
It must be capable of covering its costs.
What defines an enterprise in economic terms?
An organized economic activity.
What is an azienda in business context?
The set of goods organized by the entrepreneur.
Who is the legal subject directing an enterprise and bearing its risk?
The entrepreneur.
How can enterprises be classified by their purpose?
As profit-oriented or non-profit.
What are the legal forms by which enterprises can be classified?
Individual or collective.
Who is defined as a commercial entrepreneur?
A person conducting commercial activities listed in Article 2195 of the Civil Code.
What activities does Article 2195 list as commercial?
Industrial production, intermediation, transport, banking or insurance, and auxiliary activities.
Who must have full legal capacity to start a commercial enterprise?
A commercial entrepreneur must have full legal capacity to act.
Who may never start a new commercial enterprise in their own name?
A minor, an interdicted person, or an incapacitated person.
Under what condition can minors and interdicted persons continue an existing enterprise?
Only with Tribunal authorization and legal representative management.
Who manages the enterprise for minors and interdicted persons continuing it?
The legal representative manages it in their name and for their account.
What can an inabilitato do with authorization regarding a commercial enterprise?
Continue the enterprise performing ordinary administration personally.
What assistance does an inabilitato require for extraordinary administration?
The curator's assistance is required.
Which professions are incompatible with commercial activity?
Notaries, lawyers, ambassadors, consuls, magistrates, state employees, police, and armed forces members.
What is required before engaging in insurance, banking, and financial activities?
Prior administrative licenses or authorizations.
What happens if insurance, banking, or financial activities lack required authorizations?
It constitutes inabilitazione and leads to administrative and criminal sanctions.
What registrations does the Comunicazione unica d’impresa handle simultaneously?
Business Register, tax-code and VAT, INPS, INAIL insurance, and SCIA to municipal SUAP.
What is the Registro delle imprese?
A public computerized register managed by the Chamber of Commerce of each province.
Within how many days must a commercial entrepreneur register in the Business Register?
Within 30 days of starting the activity.
What does legal publicity inform third parties about?
Legal acts and facts.
What are the three types of legal publicity?
Informative, declaratory, and constitutive.
Why does declaratory publicity have a positive effect?
Because registered facts are presumed known and cannot be denied by third parties.
What is the negative effect of declaratory publicity?
Unregistered facts cannot generally be invoked against third parties, though actual knowledge may be proved.
Which accounting books must non-small commercial entrepreneurs keep?
The journal and inventory books.
What does the journal record in accounting?
Operations chronologically and immediately.
What does the inventory evaluate and when?
Assets and liabilities at the start and end of each year.
When do accounting records prove against the entrepreneur?
Even when irregularly kept.
Under what conditions do accounting records prove in the entrepreneur's favor?
When regularly kept, duly authenticated, and used against another entrepreneur.
What defines insolvency in a debtor?
The inability to regularly satisfy obligations shown by defaults or external facts.
What makes insolvency probable in a crisis?
Economic and financial difficulty causing prospective inability to meet obligations with expected cash flows.
When did the Crisis and Insolvency Code replace bankruptcy?
July 2022.
What did decree 14/2019 reform?
The former bankruptcy system.
What are the goals of the new Crisis and Insolvency Code?
Early crisis detection, preserving enterprise continuity, and ensuring equal creditor treatment through collective procedures.
How does the new code treat creditor claims?
Through collective procedures rather than individual enforcement actions.
What defines a tourism enterprise according to the Codice del turismo?
An organized economic activity producing, marketing, intermediating or managing tourism products, services, infrastructure or establishments.
What registration must tourism enterprises have to access subsidies?
They must be registered in the Business Register with declaratory publicity.
Which types of accommodation structures are included in tourism?
Hotel, para-hotel, non-hotel, open-air facilities like campsites and tourist villages, and mere-support facilities.
What must an operator submit to start an accommodation structure?
A SCIA to the municipal SUAP with holder's details, activity type, star classification, premises plan, room types and number of beds.
What is agritourism in relation to agricultural entrepreneurs?
Hospitality and reception through their farm linked to cultivation, forestry, or animal breeding.
What qualifications and conditions are required for agritourism?
Agricultural entrepreneur status, use of an agricultural enterprise, and prevalent agricultural activity.
What activities define an agricultural entrepreneur?
Caring for and developing a biological cycle including cultivation, forestry, and animal breeding.
What do connected agricultural activities include?
Conservation, transformation, marketing, enhancement of products, and related services using main activity resources.
What characterizes a small entrepreneur's work involvement?
The entrepreneur and family personally work, prevailing over employees and invested capital.
What registration and insolvency rules apply to small entrepreneurs?
They are exempt from ordinary Business Register registration, accounting records, and collective insolvency procedures.
What defines a family enterprise's ownership and worker relations?
The owner is sole owner and responsible; relatives work without subordination or corporate ties.
What rights do family collaborators have in a family enterprise?
Maintenance, profit participation, asset shares, and majority vote in key decisions.
How does an institore's management role differ from a procuratore's?
Institore manages whole enterprise or branch with broad powers; procuratore acts in a specific sector.
What are the limitations of a commesso's role in a family enterprise?
Performs only ordinary acts without decision-making powers.
What risks and responsibilities does the entrepreneur bear?
Business risk, responsibility for collaborators' and employees' damage to third parties, and main workplace-safety obligations under Legislative Decree 81/2008.
What does the Commercial Entrepreneur Statute impose on non-small entrepreneurs?
A particularly rigorous regime to protect the public and creditors.
What is separate from management for an incapacitated person?
Formal ownership and exposure to business risk.
Who manages the business of an incapacitated person?
The legal representative manages it.
What sanctions can occur for performing incompatible public and commercial activities?
Disciplinary sanctions like removal from a professional register or dismissal from public employment.
How must accounting records be numbered and preserved?
Numbered progressively and preserved for ten years from last entry.
How must accounting records be kept besides numbering?
Clearly and orderly.
What is judicial liquidation?
Liquidation of the insolvent entrepreneur's assets for distribution.
What is preventive composition in insolvency procedures?
A procedure seeking restructuring by continued activity or sale under judicial supervision.
What activities can agritourism include besides accommodation?
Open-air hospitality, meals from farm products, product tasting, and recreational, cultural, educational, sporting, hiking, or horse-tourism activities.
Which law sets the national framework for agritourism?
Law 96/2006.
Who regulates administrative and health details of agritourism?
The Regions.
What registration and regime apply to agricultural entrepreneurs?
They register declaratively in a special Business Register section and have a more favorable regime than commercial entrepreneurs.
What are the main requirements for an artisan's enterprise conduct?
Personal management, predominantly manual work, limited workers, and mainly producing finished or semi-finished goods or services.
Which relatives are included as family members in family enterprises?
Spouse, relatives up to third degree, and relatives by marriage up to second degree.
What does the Cirinnà Law 76/2016 grant to cohabiting partners working in the enterprise?
A position equivalent to the spouse's in the enterprise.
Which partners does the Cirinnà Law 76/2016 recognize as equivalent to spouses?
Cohabiting partners and civilly united partners working without subordination.
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