The pursuing party summons the owner of the business and the creditors registered prior to the decision ordering the sale, to the domicile declared by them in their registrations, at least fifteen days before the sale, to take notice of the specifications, to provide their statements and observations and to attend the auction, if they so wish.
The sale takes place at least ten days after posters have been put up indicating: the names, occupations, residences of the pursuer and the owner of the business, the decision by virtue of which one is acting, an election of domicile in the place where the commercial court in whose jurisdiction the business is operated has its seat, the various constituent elements of the said business, the nature of its operations, its location, the bids, the place, day and time of the auction, the name and domicile of the public officer appointed and depositary of the specifications.
These posters must be posted, at the public officer’s request, at the main door of the building and the town hall of the commune where the business is located, of the commercial court within whose jurisdiction the business is located, and at the door of the office of the appointed public officer.
The poster is inserted ten days before the sale in a medium authorised to receive legal announcements in the department in which the business is located.
Publicity is recorded by a mention made in the sale minutes.