Chapter I: Court-appointed administrators

The qualifying examination comprises two options, to be chosen by the candidate, one in commercial matters, the other in civil matters. The programme and procedures for this examination, which includes theoretical and practical tests and an internship dissertation, are set by order of the Minister of Justice. Some of the tests may be common to both options. Each candidate may choose one or both of the options. When a candidate…

If the candidate fails the qualifying examination for the first time, he or she may continue his or her traineeship. The initial traineeship completion certificate remains valid. No person may sit the qualifying examination more than three times. .

I. – Pursuant to the provisions of the eighth paragraph of Article L. 811-5, are exempt from professional training: – judicial representatives, lawyers, notaries, auctioneers, bailiffs, commercial court clerks, former solicitors, chartered accountants, auditors who have practised their profession for at least ten years; – persons who have worked for a period of at least ten years as an assistant to a court-appointed administrator; – persons who hold one of…

I.-Judicial representatives who have been registered for at least five years on the list referred to in Article L. 812-2 and who have, where applicable, completed the training period under the conditions provided for in II of article R. 811-25 are exempt from all the qualifying examination tests. They are entered on the list of court-appointed administrators with the mention of the commercial speciality, subject to the suspensive condition of…

In accordance with the last paragraph of Article L. 811-5, persons who have successfully completed a post-secondary course of study of at least three years’ duration or of an equivalent duration on a part-time basis at a university or higher education establishment or at another establishment of an equivalent level of training, and, where applicable, the professional training required in addition to this course of study and who can show:…

Unless the knowledge they have acquired in the course of their professional experience is such as to make such verification unnecessary, the persons mentioned in article R. 811-27 shall appear before the jury provided for in Article R. 811-10 an examination to test their knowledge, organised by the National Council, the syllabus and procedures for which are set by order of the Minister of Justice: 1° When their training covers…