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The clerk of the commercial court shall regularly update, on the basis of denunciations made to him by notaries and bailiffs, a statement by name and by debtor of protests for non-payment of accepted bills of exchange, promissory notes and cheques as well as certificates of non-payment of postal cheques which are denounced to him by postal cheque centres. This statement includes the information listed by decree.

After the expiry of a period of one month from the date of the protest or the drawing up of the certificate of non-payment of the postal cheque and for a period of one year from the same date, any claimant may be issued, at his own expense, by the registrars of the aforementioned courts, with an extract from the nominative statement provided for in Article L. 511-56.

Upon deposit against a receipt by the debtor of the bill of exchange and the protest of the postal cheque and the certificate of non-payment or a receipt recording payment of the cheque, the clerk of the commercial court shall, at the debtor’s expense, carry out the deletion of the protest notice or the certificate of non-payment from the statement drawn up pursuant to Article L. 511-56, the deletion of…

Any publication, in any form whatsoever, of statements drawn up under the provisions of this sub-section is prohibited on pain of damages.

A decree in the Conseil d’Etat shall determine the terms and conditions for the application of the provisions of this sub-section. In particular, it shall set the amount of remuneration payable to notaries or bailiffs who have drawn up protests and to commercial court registrars for the various formalities for which they are responsible.