The purpose of transferring the business is to ensure the maintenance of activities likely to operate independently, of all or some of the jobs attached to them and to pay off liabilities.
The transfer may be total or partial. In the latter case, it relates to a set of operating elements that form one or more complete and autonomous branches of activity.
Where a whole consists essentially of the right to a rural lease, the court may, subject to the outgoing lessee’s rights to compensation and notwithstanding the other provisions of the Farming Statute, either authorise the lessor, his spouse or one of his descendants to take over the business in order to run it, or award the rural lease to another lessee proposed by the lessor or, failing that, to any taker whose offer has been accepted under the conditions laid down in the articles L. 642-2, L. 642-4 and L. 642-5. The provisions relating to the control of farm structures are not applicable. However, where several offers have been received, the court shall take into account the priorities of the regional master plan for farms mentioned in Article L. 312-1 of the Rural and Maritime Fishing Code.
Where the debtor is a public or ministerial officer, the liquidator may exercise the debtor’s right to present his successor to the garde des sceaux, ministre de la justice.