Article 5 — Persons to be Regarded as Traders

Persons who professionally and for gain carry on any of the following or similar activities shall be deemed to be traders: 1/ Purchase of movables or immovable properties with a view to re-selling them either as they are or after alteration or adaptation in retail or wholesale in a domestic or, as the case may be, foreign market; 2/ Purchase of movables or immovable properties with a view to letting them for hire; 3/ Agricultural and forestry development on land lawfully given to a right holder for commercial purpose; 4/ Animal husbandry and production of animal products beyond small-scale levels excluding persons entitled to use rural land under the law; 5/ Fishing and fish farming beyond small-scale levels; 6/ Warehousing activities in accordance with the Civil Code or other relevant laws; 7/ Minining activities not performed by handicraftsmen, exploration,drilling and production of feul oil or gas and related activities; 8/ Exploitation of quarries not by handicraftsmen for buildings, road or other construction works; 9/ Exploitation of salt pans not by handicraftsmen; 10/ Foodstuff production, production conversion, adaptation and maintenance of corporeal movable chattels, from such things as raw materials or semi- finished products not by handicraftsmen; 11/ Building, maintaining and cleaning of houses, buildings, roads and any other construction works and