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Article R743-57 of the French Commercial code

A commercial court clerk who is a partner provisionally suspended from his duties may not engage in any professional activity; he shall retain, for the duration of his suspension, his status as a partner, with all rights and obligations arising therefrom.

A decision which pronounces the provisional suspension of one or more partners exercising their duties within the company, but not of all of them, shall not appoint an administrator.

The decision which pronounces the provisional suspension either of the company or of all the members exercising their functions within the company, appoints one or more provisional administrators to perform all the professional acts falling compulsorily within the ministry of the company or of the clerk of the commercial court.

In addition, the persons mentioned in article 64 of decree no. 2022-900 of 17 June 2022 relating to the ethics and discipline of ministerial officers may be appointed as provisional administrators.

The provisional administrator, who is not a practising commercial court clerk, shall take the oath required of a commercial court clerk before taking up his duties; in addition, he shall be required to have a stamp bearing his name and his capacity as provisional administrator.

The provisional administrator shall carry out, at the company’s registered office, the professional acts that he is instructed to perform.

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Article R743-57

Le greffier de tribunal de commerce associé provisoirement suspendu de ses fonctions ne peut exercer aucune activité professionnelle ; il conserve, pendant la durée de sa suspension, sa qualité d’associé, avec tous droits et obligations qui en découlent.

La décision qui prononce la suspension provisoire d’un ou de plusieurs associés exerçant leurs fonctions au sein de la société, mais non de la totalité d’entre eux, ne commet pas d’administrateur.

La décision qui prononce la suspension provisoire soit de la société, soit de tous les associés exerçant leurs fonctions au sein de la société, commet un ou plusieurs administrateurs provisoires pour accomplir tous les actes professionnels relevant à titre obligatoire du ministère de la société ou de greffier de tribunal de commerce.

En outre, peuvent être désignées en qualité d’administrateurs provisoires les personnes mentionnées à l’article 64 du décret n° 2022-900 du 17 juin 2022 relatif à la déontologie et à la discipline des officiers ministériels.

L’administrateur provisoire, qui n’est pas greffier de tribunal de commerce en exercice, prête avant son entrée en fonctions le serment exigé d’un greffier de tribunal de commerce ; de plus, il est tenu d’avoir un cachet portant son nom et sa qualité d’administrateur provisoire.

L’administrateur provisoire procède, au siège de la société, aux actes professionnels qu’il a mission d’accomplir.

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