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French Commercial codeIn force
Chapter V: Professional recovery

Article R645-17

…cation, as appropriate, of the name or designation and domicile or registered office of the creditors. It results in the lapse of the application to open the judicial liquidation proceedings.

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French Commercial codeIn force
Chapter V: Professional recovery

Article R645-18

The closing judgement is notified to the debtor and communicated to the public prosecutor by the court clerk. At their request, creditors whose debts are wiped out may obtain a certified extract of th…

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French Commercial codeIn force
Chapter I: Liability for insufficient assets.

Article R651-1

The court with jurisdiction to rule in the cases provided for in Article

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French Commercial codeIn force
Chapter III: Costs of proceedings.

Article R663-1

…clerk from a debtor who applies for the opening of receivership or compulsory liquidation proceedings.

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Chapter II: Other provisions.

Article R662-13

Judgments handed down by the court are pronounced in open court, with the exception of those rejecting the request to initiate one of the procedures provided for in Book VI of the legislative part of…

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Chapter II: Other provisions.

Article R662-18

…der, after having heard or duly summoned the debtor and obtained the opinion of the public prosecutor. The clerk of the commercial court seised shall immediately forward the file to the president of t…

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Chapter II: Other provisions.

Article R662-12

…the safeguard, receivership and judicial liquidation, the action for liability for insufficient assets, personal bankruptcy or the prohibition provided for in Article L. 653-8. However, no report is…

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

Article R695-1

The official receiver shall rule on the request for disclosure of confidential information pursuant to the second paragraph of I of Article

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French Commercial codeIn force
Chapter I: Main insolvency proceedings

Article R691-1

If classes of creditors have been constituted, the official receiver shall collect, by any means, their opinions on the draft undertaking mentioned in Article L. 691-2. He informs the juge-commissaire…

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French Commercial codeIn force
Chapter II: Other provisions.

Article R662-11

Where the debtor is a member of a professional order or authority, that order or authority shall inform the registry and the bodies of the proceedings of the person authorised to represent it. In the…

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