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Article R313-5 of the French Monetary and Financial Code

The entry is made in the register kept by the Registrar of the Commercial Court, the Commercial Court or the Mixed Commercial Court within whose jurisdiction the lessee is registered as the principal lessee in the Trade and Companies Register.

If the lessee is not required to be registered in the Trade and Companies Register, the entry is made in the register in whose jurisdiction the lessee’s registered office or, failing that, its principal place of business is located or, if there is neither a registered office nor a principal place of business, the place where the lessee carries on its business or the address of the business fixed at the dwelling premises.

If there is no registration in the Trade and Companies Register, no registered office, no principal place of business, no place where the business is conducted and no personal address on French territory, the competent court clerk is that of the Commercial Court of Paris.

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Article R313-5

L’inscription est portée sur le registre tenu par le greffier du tribunal de commerce, du tribunal judiciaire statuant commercialement ou du tribunal mixte de commerce dans le ressort duquel le crédit-preneur est immatriculé à titre principal au registre du commerce et des sociétés.


Si le crédit-preneur n’est pas soumis à l’obligation d’immatriculation au registre du commerce et des sociétés, l’inscription est portée sur le registre dans le ressort duquel est situé son siège ou à défaut son établissement principal ou, s’il n’existe ni siège, ni établissement principal, le lieu où il exerce son activité ou l’adresse de l’entreprise fixée au local d’habitation.


A défaut d’immatriculation au registre du commerce et des sociétés, de siège, d’établissement principal, de lieu d’exercice de l’activité et de domicile personnel sur le territoire français, le greffier compétent est celui du tribunal de commerce de Paris.

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