Subsection 3: Professional ethics

Commercial court judges shall perform their duties with complete independence, dignity, impartiality, integrity and probity and shall behave in such a way as to prevent any legitimate doubt in this respect. Commercial court judges are prohibited from any demonstration of hostility to the principle or form of government of the Republic, as well as any demonstration of a political nature incompatible with the reserve imposed on them by their duties….

In addition to the rules laid down by the Criminal Code and special laws, commercial court judges are protected against threats and attacks of any nature whatsoever to which they may be subject in the course of or in connection with the performance of their duties. The State must compensate the resulting direct damage. A decree in the Council of State specifies the conditions and limits for the State to…

Commercial court judges shall take care to prevent or immediately put an end to situations of conflict of interest. A conflict of interest is any situation of interference between a public interest and public or private interests which is likely to influence or appear to influence the independent, impartial and objective exercise of a function. Commercial court judges shall take care to prevent or immediately put an end to situations…

I. – Within two months of taking up their duties, the judges of the commercial courts shall submit a complete, accurate and sincere declaration of their interests: 1° To the president of the court, for the judges of the commercial courts; 2° To the first president of the court of appeal, for the presidents of the commercial courts within the jurisdiction of that court. The declaration of interests shall mention…