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French Commercial codeIn force
Chapter II: Provisions applicable to non-trading private legal entities engaged in economic activity

Article L612-5

The legal representative or, if there is one, the statutory auditor of a non-trading private-law legal entity with an economic activity or of an association referred to in article L. 612-4 presents to…

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French Commercial codeIn force
Preliminary chapter: Conditions for opening a judicial liquidation.

Article L640-5

…subject to registration. Where the provisions relating to the procedure provided for in Article L. 351-1 of the Rural and Maritime Fishing Code, the President of the Judicial Court must be notified, p…

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French Commercial codeIn force
Chapter I: Commencement and progress of the receivership.

Article L631-5

…rior to the summons, of a request for the appointment of a conciliator made pursuant to article L. 351-2 of the Rural and Maritime Fishing Code.

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French Commercial codeIn force
Chapter I: Judgment of compulsory liquidation.

Article L641-5

When the judicial liquidation is pronounced during the observation period of safeguard or receivership proceedings, the liquidator proceeds with the liquidation operations at the same time as he compl…

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Section 1: Commencement of proceedings

Article L628-5

The Public Prosecutor shall refer the matter to the court for the purpose of terminating the accelerated safeguard procedure if it is established that the debtor had been in cessation of payments for…

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Section 1: Transfer of the business.

Article L642-5

…asons, it may only be stopped by the court after the procedure provided for in I of article L. 1233-58 of the Labour Code has been implemented. The opinion of the social and economic committee is deli…

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Chapter II: Other provisions.

Article L662-5

Funds held by trustees under receivership or liquidation proceedings governed by the loi n° 67-563 du 13 juillet 1967 sur le règlement judiciaire, la liquidation des biens, la faillite personnelle et…

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French Commercial codeIn force
Chapter V: Professional recovery

Article L645-5

The judge assigned shall have the powers provided for in Article L. 623-2. He shall immediately provide the agent assisting him with all information and documents required to perform his duties.

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French Commercial codeIn force
Section 1: Settlement of certain claims.

Article L643-5

The rights of mortgage creditors who are partially collocated on the distribution of the price of the properties are settled on the basis of the amount remaining due to them after the property colloca…

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French Commercial codeIn force
Chapter IV: Simplified judicial liquidation.

Article L644-5

The court shall pronounce the closure of the judicial liquidation at the latest within six months of the decision ordering or deciding on the application of the simplified procedure, with the debtor h…

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