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Chapter I: Liability for insufficient assets.

Article R651-4

For the application of article L. 651-3, the formal notice given to the court-appointed agent to initiate the liability action is delivered by at least two supervising creditors. Their action is admis…

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Section 12: Miscellaneous provisions.

Article R641-40

In application of Article L. 641-15, the liquidator may, by order of the juge-commissaire, ask the legal representative of the legal entity or the debtor who is a natural person or any other employee…

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Chapter III: Personal bankruptcy and other prohibition measures.

Article R653-4

Any application for relief from disqualifications, prohibitions and incapacities shall be made by petition to the court that pronounced them. All documents proving the contribution to the payment of t…

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Section 3: Common provisions.

Article R642-41

Where, pursuant to article L. 642-24, there are grounds for the official receiver to authorise the liquidator to compromise or settle, the court clerk shall summon the debtor to the hearing fifteen da…

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Section 3: Compensation for unpaid claims.

Article R663-44

Caisse des dépôts et consignations shall open in its books a specific bank account in the name of the fund.

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Section 3: Compensation for unpaid claims.

Article R663-49

When the judicial liquidation proceedings are resumed after having been closed and the liquidator has benefited from the compensation provided for in Article L. 663-3, any request for a fee in respect…

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Section 3: Compensation for unpaid claims.

Article R663-48

When he has approved the end-of-assignment report of the mandataire judiciaire or liquidator, the juge-commissaire proposes to the court that it apply article L. 663-3 if the conditions set out in thi…

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Chapter III: Information for foreign creditors and declaration of claims

Article R693-4

Claims shall be declared in the French language or accompanied by a translation into the French language. The creditor may produce a translation of the claim declaration and supporting documents until…

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Chapter V: Cooperation and communication between insolvency practitioners and the courts

Article R695-4

If the debtor fulfils the conditions of the first paragraph of Article L. 626-29, the insolvency administrator shall without delay notify the insolvency practitioner appointed in insolvency proceeding…

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Section 3: Compensation for unpaid claims.

Article R663-46

Payment of the sums to the court-appointed agents and liquidators is made by the Caisse des dépôts et consignations into a bank account opened in the name of the beneficiary on the basis of an extract…

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