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French Commercial codeIn force
Subsection 2: Amending entries

Article R521-16

Where the request for an amended registration relates to information concerning the debtor or the owner of the property when he is not the debtor and which is referred to in 2°, 3° and 4° of article R…

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French Commercial codeIn force
Section 3: Operation and control.

Article R522-16

General warehouses are subject to the general police measures concerning public places used for trade, without prejudice to the rights of the customs service when they are established in premises plac…

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French Commercial codeIn force
Subsection 2: The special register of individual entrepreneurs with limited liability.

Article R526-16

When the individual limited liability entrepreneur is registered in the special register mentioned in Article R. 526-15, the registrar shall indicate in the register the information provided for in 1°…

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French Commercial codeIn force
Section 3: Continuation of the business.

Article R622-16

The debtor, the administrator if one has been appointed and, where applicable, the mandataire judiciaire shall indicate to the juge-commissaire and the public prosecutor, when they so request, the bal…

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French Commercial codeIn force
Section 1: Referral to and decision by the court.

Article R621-16

The dismissal of the employee representative appointed pursuant to article L. 621-4 is governed by the provisions of articles R. 436-1 to R. 436-8 and article R. 436-10 of the Labour Code.

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French Commercial codeIn force
Section 3: Rights of the seller of furniture, claims and restitutions.

Article R624-16

In the event of reclamation of the price of the assets pursuant to Article L. 624-18, the corresponding sums paid by the sub-purchaser after the opening of the proceedings must be paid by the debtor o…

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Section 4: Conservatory measures.

Article R641-16

Goods, documents and effects exempted or extracted from seals by decision of the juge-commissaire shall be inventoried without delay with an estimate of their value by the person responsible for carry…

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French Commercial codeIn force
Subsection 2: Procedural bodies and supervisors.

Article R631-16

Articles R. 621-10 to R. 621-25, excluding the first paragraph of article R. 621-23 and article R. 621-20, are applicable to receivership proceedings.

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French Commercial codeIn force
Chapter V: Professional recovery

Article R645-16

The judge assigned may not sit on the panel or take part in its deliberations, failing which the judgment will be null and void.

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French Commercial codeIn force
Section 2: Closure of the judicial liquidation.

Article R643-16

Insufficient assets are characterised when the proceeds from the realisation of the debtor's assets and the actions and proceedings taken in the interest of the company or the creditors are no longer…

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