In the cases provided for in Article L. 651-2, the matter shall be referred to the court by the liquidator or the public prosecutor.
In the collective interest of the creditors, the matter may also be referred to the court by the majority of the creditors appointed as controllers where the liquidator has not taken the action provided for in the same article, after a formal notice has remained unanswered within a period and under conditions set by decree in the Conseil d’Etat.
The costs and irreducible expenses to which the manager, the individual entrepreneur with limited liability or the individual entrepreneur covered by the status defined in Section 3 of Chapter VI of Title II of Book V has been ordered shall be paid in priority to the sums paid to make good the liabilities.