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

Article L631-15

I.-At the latest at the end of a period of two months from the opening judgment, the court shall order the observation period to continue if it appears to it that the debtor has sufficient financing c…

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

Article L631-10

…s from the opening judgment, the shares, equity securities or securities giving access to the capital of the legal entity which has been the subject of the opening judgment and which are held, directl…

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

Article L631-11

The remuneration relating to the functions exercised by the debtor, if he is a natural person, or the managers of the legal entity is maintained as it was on the day the proceedings were opened, unles…

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

Article L631-19-2

When the cessation of activity of an undertaking with at least one hundred and fifty employees or constituting, within the meaning of article L. 2331-1 of the French Labour Code, a dominant undertakin…

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French Monetary and Financial CodeIn force
Section 2: The High Council for Financial Stability

Article L631-2-1

…t prejudice to the respective powers of the institutions that its members represent, the Haut Conseil de stabilité financière supervises the financial system as a whole, with the aim of preserving its…

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

Article L631-10-2

The person or persons designated by the social and economic committee shall be informed by the administrator or, failing that, the judicial representative of the arrangements for implementing the prec…

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

Article L631-3-1

…t of the court that the debtor is in a state of cessation of payments, the president informs the public prosecutor by means of a note setting out the facts on the basis of which the matter was referre…

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

Article L631-21-1

Where the court considers that the sale of all or part of the business is conceivable, it shall appoint an administrator, if one has not already been appointed, to take all necessary steps to prepare…

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

Article L631-21

The provisions of Chapter VII of Title II are applicable to the reorganisation plan. During the observation period, the business is continued by the debtor, who exercises the prerogatives devolved to…

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

Article L631-3

The receivership procedure is also applicable to the persons mentioned in the first paragraph of Article L. 631-2 after the cessation of their professional activity if all or part of their liabilities…

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