French Commercial code
In forceI.-For the category of acts of liquidation proceedings other than safeguard or receivership mentioned in table 2 of article appendix 4-7, the fee breaks down into:
1° A main fee and a fixed fee for transmission, set according to a fixed fee schedule, the scale of which is progressive according to, on the one hand, the number of employees and, on the other hand, the turnover of the company concerned, these two characteristics being determined in accordance with the provisions of article R. 621-11 or, failing that, on the basis of the data available in the procedure file;
2° Two fixed ancillary fees, the first of which may be levied where the company concerned has at least one secondary establishment and the second where the number of creditors of the company concerned exceeds 25.
II.- If the main establishment and the secondary establishment of the company concerned are not the same, the creditors of the company concerned are entitled to a fixed ancillary fee.If the main establishment and the secondary establishment are located within the jurisdiction of different registries, the registrar of the main proceedings pays half of the first ancillary fee provided for in 2° of I to the registry of the secondary establishment.
III.-The fee referred to in 1° of I does not include bailiff's fees or fees relating to legal announcement media and the Bulletin officiel des annonces civiles et commerciales.
IV.-As soon as the judicial liquidation proceedings referred to in the first paragraph of I are opened or pronounced, a sum of €200 excluding tax is paid to the registrar, to be deducted from the main fee and the transmission flat fee referred to in 1° of I. The balance is payable on the date of closure of these proceedings.
