Court-appointed administrators are required to appoint a statutory auditor who is responsible for auditing their special accounts and, in this capacity, carries out a permanent task of auditing all funds, bills, securities and other assets belonging to third parties, of which the court-appointed administrators are the sole holders by virtue of a mandate received in the performance of their duties.
This control also covers bank or postal accounts opened for business purposes in the name of debtors who are the subject of one of the procedures provided for in Title II of Book VI and which operate under the sole signature of the administrator or his duly authorised delegates.
The statutory auditors may also, for auditing purposes, have access to the general accounts of the firm, to the procedures entrusted to the administrator and be provided by him or by the third parties holding the funds, notwithstanding any provision to the contrary, with any information useful to their auditing mission.