Subsection 1: Cross-border mergers

I.-The audit provided for in Article L. 236-42 shall be carried out within three months of receipt of the copy of the minutes of the meeting referred to in Article L. 236-9 or, in the absence of a meeting, of the date on which the competent body decided on the merger. The Registrar may extend the period provided for in the first paragraph for a period not exceeding three months….

Each company taking part in the cross-border merger shall submit to the registrar responsible for the supervision referred to in Article L. 236-43 a file containing, in addition to the certificate of compliance issued by the competent authority, where applicable the registrar referred to in Article L. 236-42, and dating from less than six months, the draft terms of cross-border merger approved by the competent body of each of the…

The inspection provided for in article L. 236-43 shall be carried out within fifteen days of receipt of all the documents mentioned in article R. 236-32.

Any appeal against the decisions of the Registrar in respect of the control operations referred to in Articles L. 236-42, L. 236-43 and R. 236-30 shall be lodged under the conditions and according to the procedures of article R. 123-139 of the French Commercial Code.

A creditor’s objection to the cross-border merger, under the conditions provided for by Article L. 236-15, shall be lodged within three months of the last publication or the making available to the public of the draft terms of cross-border merger on the website of each of the companies prescribed by Article R. 236-2 or, where applicable, by Article R. 236-3. The representatives of the bondholders’ group may object to the…