Subsection 1: Candidatures and pre-election procedures.

Applications for the office of judge of a commercial court are declared to the prefect. No person may be a candidate for several commercial courts at the same time. Declarations of candidacy are admissible until 6 p.m. on the twentieth day preceding that of the counting of votes in the first ballot. Declarations must be made in writing and signed by the candidates. They may be individual or collective. Each…

The electoral college is informed, by an order of the prefect issued forty-five days before the date of the counting of the votes for the first ballot, of the date, time and place set for the counting and collation of the votes for the first and second ballots. A copy of this order is sent to each elector. A period of ten working days separates the counting dates for the…

The commission provided for in article L. 723-13 comprises, in addition to its chairman, a judge of the judicial court appointed by the first president of the court of appeal and a civil servant appointed by the prefect. The secretariat of the commission is provided by the clerk of the commercial court.