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Showing 58315840 of 60433 articles for Art. Loi 86-18 du 6-1-1986

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

Article L631-6

The members of the social and economic committee may inform the president of the court or the public prosecutor of any fact revealing the cessation of payments by the debtor.

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Preliminary chapter: Conditions for opening a judicial liquidation.

Article L640-6

The members of the social and economic committee may inform the president of the court or the public prosecutor of any fact revealing the cessation of payments by the debtor.

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Chapter V: Professional recovery

Article L645-6

If the debtor is put in default or sued by a creditor during the course of the proceedings, the judge may, at the debtor's request, defer payment of the sums due for up to four months and order, for t…

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Chapter III: Personal bankruptcy and other prohibition measures.

Article L653-6

The court may declare the personal bankruptcy of the manager of the legal entity, the individual entrepreneur with limited liability or the individual entrepreneur covered by the status defined in Sec…

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Chapter II: Other provisions.

Article L662-6

…f the court-appointed receivers and agents and other persons to whom a mandate relating to the procedures governed by this book has been entrusted by the said court, during that period. They shall inc…

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Chapter IV: Simplified judicial liquidation.

Article L644-6

At any time, the court may decide, in a specially reasoned judgment, to no longer apply the derogations provided for in this chapter.

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Section 2: Regional chambers of commerce and industry

Article L711-6

In each region, a regional chamber of commerce and industry is created by decree. The constituency of the regional chamber of commerce and industry is the region or, in Corsica, the jurisdiction of th…

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Section 2: Collective coordination procedure

Article L694-6

…iver shall authorise the court-appointed agent to accept or refuse inclusion in a coordination procedure of the insolvency proceedings in which he is appointed, as well as to apply to participate volu…

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Chapter IV: Discipline of commercial court judges.

Article L724-6

The decisions of the National Disciplinary Committee and those of its Chairman shall state the reasons on which they are based. They may be appealed only to the Cour de cassation.

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Chapter I: Markets of national interest

Article L761-6

…cated within the port and hosting port activities where these facilities are solely intended for products imported into the port or exported from it by sea.

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