Chapter II: Enforcement officers

Only the bailiffs responsible for enforcement may carry out forced execution and protective seizures. They are obliged to provide their services or assistance except where the measure requested appears to them to be unlawful or where the amount of the costs appears likely to exceed the amount of the claim, unless the claim is the result of a symbolic sentence that the debtor refuses to enforce.

The enforcement agent is responsible for carrying out enforcement operations. Where required by law, he is empowered to ask the enforcement judge or the public prosecutor to grant the necessary authorisations or prescribe the necessary measures.

The law shall determine the other persons empowered to carry out, in the areas that it lays down, forced execution and protective seizures in the same way as bailiffs.