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French Code of civil enforcement proceduresIn force
Paragraph 2: Ordinary procedure

Article R121-12

In urgent cases, the enforcement judge may allow the summons to be served at the time he or she specifies, even from hour to hour and on public holidays.

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French Code of civil enforcement proceduresIn force
Section 2: Direct payment at the request of a body responsible for paying family benefits

Article R213-12

The direct payment procedure implemented by a body that owes family benefits ends, at the latest, at the end of the twenty-fourth monthly payment made by the garnishee. Subject to the provisions of th…

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French Code of civil enforcement proceduresIn force
Chapter IV: Seizure of assets placed in a safe deposit box

Article R224-12

A copy of the inventory is delivered or served to the debtor and, where applicable, to the persons to whom property has been remitted. Under penalty of nullity, the copy delivered or served on the deb…

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French Code of civil enforcement proceduresIn force
Section 2: Seizure by immobilisation of the vehicle

Article R223-12

If the vehicle has been immobilised in order to be handed over to its owner, the bailiff shall serve the person required to hand over the vehicle, no later than eight days after the immobilisation, wi…

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French Code of civil enforcement proceduresIn force
Section 3: Multiple assets or seizures

Article R321-12

The enforcement judge shall grant the debtor's request that the effects of the seizure be provisionally confined to one or more of his immovable properties where he establishes that the value of these…

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French Code of civil enforcement proceduresIn force
Subsection 4: Statements of claim

Article R322-12

The period within which a registered creditor who has been notified of a summons to pay equivalent to a seizure must declare his claim is two months from the date of notification. However, a creditor…

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French Code of civil enforcement proceduresIn force
Subsection 2: Apprehension on court order

Article R222-12

On pain of inadmissibility, the request shall contain a description of the property for which surrender is requested, accompanied by any document justifying the request.

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French Code of civil enforcement proceduresIn force
Section 3: Multiple seizures

Article R522-12

If the assets seized as a precautionary measure are subsequently sold, the bailiff serves the seizure report on the creditors who previously carried out the precautionary seizures. Similarly, the docu…

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French Public procurement codeIn force
Subsection 1: Reserving contracts for economic operators employing disabled and disadvantaged workers

Article L2113-12

Contracts or lots of a contract may be reserved for adapted companies mentioned in article L. 5213-13 of the French Labour Code, establishments and services providing assistance through work mentioned…

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French Public procurement codeIn force
Section 3: Change in the situation of economic operators with regard to the grounds for exclusion

Article L2141-12

Where, during the course of the procedure for the award of a contract, an economic operator is placed in one of the cases of exclusion mentioned in sections 1 and 2, it shall inform the purchaser of t…

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