(1) The application for entry in the register in accordance with section 198, including the application for entry in the register of the by-laws of the cooperative society, is to be filed by all members of the future representative body as well as, in cases in which the legal entity must have a supervisory board in accordance with the provisions applicable to the new legal form, also by all members of this supervisory board. Concurrently with the application for entry in the register of the cooperative society, an application is to be filed for entry in the register of the members of its management board.
(2) Where the legal entity in its new legal form is a stock corporation or a public partly limited partnership, all those shareholders also are to file the application for entry in the register under subsection (1) who, as defined in section 219, are equivalent to the founders of this company.
(3) The application for entry in the register of the change of legal form in accordance with section 198 (2) sentence 3 may also be filed by the shareholders authorised to represent the company changing its legal form.