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Chapter III: Preparation of the economic, social and environmental report.

Article R623-2

The environmental assessment provided for in article L. 623-1 is carried out at the request of the administrator by the debtor or by a technician appointed by the juge-commissaire, if the latter deems…

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Section 4: Declaration of claims.

Article R622-22

In application of the sixth paragraph of Article L. 622-24, creditors whose claims, properly arising after the opening judgment other than those mentioned in I of Article L. 622-17, result from a succ…

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Chapter V: Settlement of claims arising from employment contracts.

Article R625-2

Statements of claims arising from employment contracts include the identity of each employee, the nature of his or her employment contract, the date on which he or she joined the company, the job held…

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Section 5: Maintaining the business.

Article R641-20

The liquidator or administrator who administers the business after the opening or pronouncement of the judicial liquidation shall keep the official receiver and the public prosecutor informed of the r…

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Section 7: Declaration of claims.

Article R641-26

Litigation and civil enforcement proceedings suspended pursuant to the second paragraph of Article L. 622-28 shall be pursued at the initiative of the creditors benefiting from guarantees mentioned in…

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Preliminary chapter: Commencement and conduct of judicial liquidation.

Article R640-2

A court of appeal which quashes a judgment ruling on the opening of judicial liquidation proceedings or its pronouncement may, of its own motion, open judicial liquidation proceedings or pronounce the…

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Section 8: Verification and admission of claims.

Article R641-27

The liquidator, within two months of taking up his duties, shall submit to the official receiver a statement mentioning the valuation of the assets and the preferential and unsecured liabilities. In t…

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Section 5: Maintaining the business.

Article R641-21

The court clerk shall notify the other party to the contract of the decision of the juge-commissaire granting the liquidator, or the administrator where one has been appointed, the extension provided…

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Chapter V: Professional recovery

Article R645-2

When the court opens the professional recovery proceedings at the request of the debtor, it shall stay the ruling on the request to open the judicial liquidation proceedings made by the debtor and, wh…

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Chapter V: Professional recovery

Article R645-21

The debtor's appeal is made by a declaration made or sent by registered letter with acknowledgement of receipt to the registry of the court of appeal. The appeal is lodged, investigated and judged in…

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