The simplified procedure provided for in Chapter IV of this Title is applied if the debtor’s assets do not include any real estate and if the number of its employees during the six months preceding the opening of the procedure and its turnover excluding tax are equal to or less than thresholds set by decree. When the debtor is a natural person, only the first condition is required. However, the rights referred to in the first paragraph of Article L. 526-1 may not prevent the opening of simplified judicial liquidation proceedings.
If the court has the information enabling it to verify that the conditions referred to in the first paragraph have been met, it shall rule on this application in the judicial liquidation judgment and may entrust the liquidator with the task of carrying out, where appropriate, the inventory in these proceedings. Otherwise, the president of the court shall rule on the basis of a report on the debtor’s situation drawn up by the liquidator within one month of his appointment.
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