Paragraph 1-1: Competitive entrance examination to become a commercial court clerk

The order of the Keeper of the Seals, Minister of Justice, setting the number of places offered in the competition under the conditions provided for in Article R. 742-6-1 shall be published in the Official Journal of the French Republic no later than six months before the date of the first test. The dates and locations of the tests are set no later than four months before the date of…

Applications must be sent by teleprocedure on the Ministry of Justice website, no later than three months before the date of the first test. Application files include: 1° A request from the interested party stating that they wish to take part in the competition. The request shall mention the applicant’s contact details, including a valid personal e-mail address; 2° A copy of both sides of the applicant’s national identity card…

The Minister of Justice, the Minister of Justice, shall draw up the list of candidates admitted to the competition no later than one month before the start of the tests; he shall immediately send the files of these candidates to the Conseil national des greffiers des tribunaux de commerce. Individual invitations indicating the day, time and place of the tests shall be sent to each candidate, at least fifteen days…

The competitive examination for admission to the profession of commercial court clerk comprises three written eligibility tests and two oral admission tests based on the programme set out in the Annex 7-6 to this book. The subjects of the written and oral tests are determined by the jury. The Conseil national des greffiers des tribunaux de commerce provides the secretariat for the jury.

The written eligibility tests comprise: 1° A three-hour essay on a subject of civil or commercial law. The test is assigned a coefficient of 3. 2° A two-hour test designed to check the candidates’ ability to solve one or more practical cases on commercial law subjects. A coefficient of 4 is assigned to this test. 3° A two-hour test designed to test candidates’ ability to solve one or more practical…

The chairman, one or more members of the jury or their alternates, assisted, where appropriate, by commercial court clerks appointed for this purpose by the chairman of the jury, shall supervise the admissibility tests.

For the admissibility tests, candidates may use codes and compendia of laws and decrees containing references to articles of doctrine and case law, excluding, however, codes annotated and commented on, article by article, by legal professionals. They may also use codes or compendia of laws and decrees containing no indication of doctrine or case law, with no notes other than references to legislative or regulatory texts. Any candidate who has…

The marking of the eligibility tests is organised in such a way as to preserve the anonymity of each candidate. Each composition is examined by two markers and given a mark from 0 to 20. Any mark below 5 out of 20 is eliminatory. The jury determines, while respecting the anonymity of the papers, the total number of points required to be eligible and, on this basis, draws up the…

No one may sit the oral admission tests unless they have been declared eligible by the jury. The oral admission tests are held in public session. They comprise: 1° An oral test on a subject relating to commercial law, civil and commercial procedure, the professional regulations governing commercial court clerks or the organisation and management of a registry, followed by a conversation with the jury on the same subjects. The…

The oral tests are marked from 0 to 20. Any mark below 5 out of 20 is eliminatory. At the end of the admission oral tests, the selection board will draw up, in order of merit, a list of candidates admitted on the basis of the total points obtained in all the tests, after applying the corresponding coefficients, within the limit of the places available in the competition. If several…