French Consumer CodeIn force
Section 1: Civil action
Article L621-5
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The suspension and prohibition of enforcement proceedings brought against the debtor's assets entails a prohibition on the debtor doing any act that would aggravate his insolvency, paying, in whole or…
The judge shall determine the losses likely to be compensated for each consumer or each of the categories of consumers making up the group he has defined, as well as their amount or all the elements a…
…an agreement, notified to the mediation evaluation and control commission mentioned in Article L. 615-1, which allocates disputes between the mediators concerned.
In the event of conviction for offences punishable under articles L. 531-3 and L. 531-4, the court may also order: 1° That the decision be displayed and distributed in accordance with the conditions s…
A Conseil d'Etat decree sets out the terms and conditions for applying articles L. 524-1 to L. 524-4.
…communicates to the consumer mediation evaluation and control commission mentioned in article L. 615-1 information relating to its skills, organisation and activity. The list of this information is s…
The members of the commission, as well as any person who participates in its work or is called upon to deal with the overindebtedness situation, are required not to divulge to third parties any inform…
…hoice and inviting it to present, within a period specified by the decree referred to in Article L. 522-10, its written observations and, where appropriate, its oral observations. After this period, i…
An application by the debtor made pursuant to the first paragraph of Article
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