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Article R123-122 of the French Commercial code

I. – The following shall be entered automatically in the register: 1° Decisions, taken in safeguard or receivership or judicial liquidation proceedings for companies opened on or after 1 January 2006: a) Opening the safeguard or receivership proceedings with an indication of the names of the judicial representatives appointed and, where applicable, the powers conferred on the administrator; b) Converting the safeguard proceedings into receivership proceedings with an indication of…

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Article R123-123 of the French Commercial code

Where the court that has handed down one of the decisions referred to in Article R. 123-122 is not the court within whose jurisdiction the register in which the main registration appears is kept, the registrar of the court that has handed down the decision shall notify the decision by registered letter within three days of that decision to the registrar responsible for keeping the register. The latter will make…

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Article R123-124 of the French Commercial code

The following are automatically entered in the register: 1° Measures of incapacity or prohibition from exercising a commercial or professional activity, managing, administering or directing a legal entity resulting from a final court decision or administrative decision; 2° Court decisions pronouncing the dissolution or nullity of the legal entity; 3° The death of a registered person. 4° The dissolution of a company by the occurrence of the statutory term, except…

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Article R123-125 of the French Commercial code

Unless the last paragraph of article R. 123-128, when the Registrar is informed that a registered person has ceased his activity at the declared address, he shall remind him of his reporting obligations by registered letter with acknowledgement of receipt, sent to the same address. If the letter is returned with a statement that the person is no longer at the address indicated, the Registrar shall note the cessation of…

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Article R123-125-1 of the French Commercial code

When the Registrar is informed that the registration of a person or an amending registration concerning that person would have been carried out by producing an irregular supporting document or deed, and the Registrar establishes that this information is of a serious nature, he shall inform the registered person by registered letter with acknowledgement of receipt and invite him to produce additional supporting documents within a period of fifteen days….

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Article R123-126 of the French Commercial code

When the Registrar is informed by an administrative or judicial authority of a change in one of the addresses declared by the registered person, he shall automatically mention these changes and notify the person at the new address. The Registrar shall proceed in the same way if he is informed of a change, resulting from a decision of the competent administrative authority, in the wording of one of the declared…

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Article R123-127 of the French Commercial code

In the event of the transfer to another Member State of the European Community or party to the Agreement on the European Economic Area of the registered office of a European Company registered in France, the registrar of the former registered office shall automatically proceed with the deletion, upon notification of the new registration by the authority responsible for the new registration in the State to which the registered office…

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Article R123-128 of the French Commercial code

Any trader is automatically struck off the register if: 1° He is prohibited from carrying on a commercial activity by virtue of a court decision that has become final or an enforceable administrative decision; 2° He has been deceased for more than one year, unless a declaration has been made under the conditions provided for in 6° and 7° of article R. 123-46. In the latter case, deregistration is carried…

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Article R123-129 of the French Commercial code

Any trader or legal entity shall be struck off automatically: 1° As from the closure of proceedings, either for bankruptcy, liquidation of assets due to insufficient assets or dissolution of the union, or judicial liquidation due to insufficient assets; 2° At the end of the period of one year following the entry in the register of the total cessation of its activity, except in the case of legal entities that…

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Article R123-130 of the French Commercial code

When the registrar who carried out the main registration of a legal entity that may be subject to dissolution notes, after a period of two years following the entry in the register of the total cessation of activity of this entity, the absence of any amending entry relating to a resumption of activity, he may proceed, after having informed the legal entity by registered letter with acknowledgement of receipt sent…

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