The information provided for in the third paragraph of Article L. 221-3 shall be in writing and shall include the name and address of the prospective purchaser and the period within which the purchaser must offer to pay the proposed price.
The bailiff communicates this information to the distraining creditor and opposing creditors by registered letter with acknowledgement of receipt. He shall also communicate them to the creditors holding a published security interest by registered letter with acknowledgement of receipt reproducing, in very clear characters, the two paragraphs below.
Each creditor has fifteen days from receipt of the letter to respond to the proposals for amicable sale. If no response is received, the creditor is deemed to have accepted.
All creditors with a published security interest must also inform the bailiff of the nature and amount of their claim within the same period. If he fails to do so, he loses the right to participate in the distribution of the funds resulting from the amicable sale, except to assert his rights to any balance remaining after the distribution.
In the absence of an amicable sale, a forced sale may only be carried out after the expiry of the one-month period provided for in article R. 221-30, plus, if applicable, the fifteen-day period given to creditors to respond.