The receivership procedure is applicable to any person carrying on a commercial, craft or agricultural activity as defined in article L. 311-1 du code rural et de la pêche maritime and to any other natural person exercising an independent professional activity including a liberal profession subject to a legislative or regulatory status or whose title is protected, as well as to any legal person under private law.
Unless the separate assets of an entrepreneur are involved, no new judicial reorganisation proceedings may be opened in respect of a debtor subject to such proceedings, to safeguard proceedings or to judicial liquidation proceedings, as long as the operations of the resulting plan have not been terminated or the liquidation proceedings have not been closed.