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TITLE I: Clearance sales, unpacking sales, sales on sale and factory outlet sales.

Article R310-2 of the French Commercial code

A prior declaration of the liquidation sale shall be sent by registered letter with acknowledgement of receipt or delivered to the mayor of the commune where the sale operations are planned, at least two months before the date scheduled for the start of the sale. However, this time limit is reduced to five days when the reason given in support is consecutive to an unforeseeable event of such a nature…

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Article R310-3 of the French Commercial code

The mayor shall issue a receipt for the declaration of the liquidation sale within a maximum of fifteen days of receipt of the complete file for the said declaration; if the file is incomplete, the mayor shall notify the interested party of the list of missing documents within seven days of receipt; if the additional documents are not produced within seven days of receipt of the notification of the missing…

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Article R310-6 of the French Commercial code

The postponement of the date of the liquidation sale indicated in the declaration mentioned in article R. 310-2 shall be the subject of prior notification to the mayor by registered letter with acknowledgement of receipt, including justification for the change. Any postponement of this date by more than two months gives rise to a new declaration under the conditions laid down in article R. 310-2. As soon as he is…

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Article R310-7 of the French Commercial code

Advertising for a liquidation sale may only relate to products listed in the inventory provided as an appendix to the prior declaration mentioned in article R. 310-2. The order referred to in article R. 310-2 also specifies the information that must appear in this publicity and the procedures for its organisation.

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Article R310-8 of the French Commercial code

I.-A prior declaration of an unpacking sale is sent by the organiser by registered letter with acknowledgement of receipt or delivered against receipt to the mayor of the commune in which the sale operation is planned, within the following deadlines: 1° Within the same timeframe as the application for authorisation to temporarily occupy the public domain and concomitantly with the latter when the sale is planned on the public domain…

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Article R310-16 of the French Commercial code

Any person engaging in sales on sale shall keep at the disposal of the agents authorised to carry out checks the documents justifying that the goods sold on sale had been offered for sale, and where the seller is neither the producer nor his agent that their purchase price had been paid, for at least one month at the date of the start of the sales period in question.

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