Section 4: Conservatory measures.

Articles R. 622-2 to R. 622-5-1, excluding article R. 622-4-1, are applicable to the judicial liquidation procedure. The liquidator exercises the functions devolved to the mandataire judiciaire by these provisions. The rules provided for in the fourth to sixth paragraphs of article R. 622-4 are applicable to the taking of the debtor’s assets carried out in the event of the opening of a judicial liquidation procedure or the pronouncement of…

The official receiver may order seals to be affixed to all or part of the debtor’s assets. In this case, the procedure shall be in accordance with the rules laid down for seals after death. Notice of the affixing of seals shall be given to the official receiver who ordered it. Where the debtor practises a liberal profession subject to a legislative or regulatory statute or whose title is protected,…

Goods, documents and effects exempted or extracted from seals by decision of the juge-commissaire shall be inventoried without delay with an estimate of their value by the person responsible for carrying out the inventory. Their condition is summarily described in the minutes of the affixing of seals.

The liquidator or the administrator, if one has been appointed, shall request that the seals be unsealed with a view to the inventory operations.