Glossaire du BODACC
Les termes des annonces civiles et commerciales, expliqués simplement, et pour chacun ce que disent vraiment les annonces publiées : combien, sur quelles périodes, dans quels secteurs. Le vocabulaire des procédures, des actes et des formalités, réuni au même endroit, dans la langue du Bulletin officiel des annonces civiles et commerciales.
44termes publiés
51 234 101annonces publiées au total
3 362 382annonces de procédures collectives
20 665procédures collectives sur 30 jours
44 termes sur 44.
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- Administrative dissolutionEntry by which the court registry removes from the register a company that no longer complies with its obligations or no longer shows any sign of activity.
- Annual accountsBalance sheet, income statement and notes that each company prepares at the end of the financial year, files with the court registry and publishes in the BODACC.
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- BailiffPublic and ministerial officer who serves legal documents, enforces court decisions and conducts sales ordered by the court.
- BODACCOfficial publication that makes public the civil and commercial notices of companies and gives the published acts enforceability against third parties.
- Business assetsAll movable and intangible elements that an operator brings together around a customer base, transferred or given as security as a whole.
- Business formationPublication in the BODACC of the birth of a business: registration, natural person or legal entity, and the effects of this legal publication.
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- Cessation of businessDefinitive or temporary cessation of a company's operations, which triggers registry formalities and a publication in the BODACC.
- Cessation of paymentsSituation in which a company can no longer meet its due debts, the starting point for collective proceedings.
- Civil companyA company with no commercial purpose, such as an SCI, registered in the trade and companies register and whose legal existence is published in the BODACC.
- Collective insolvency proceedingsSet of regimes organized by the texts to deal with a debtor's failure, from safeguard to judicial liquidation.
- Commercial CourtCourt of first instance with jurisdiction over commercial disputes and collective proceedings, whose judgments are published in the BODACC.
- Company officer18733 annoncesPerson who represents and administers a company. Their appointment and the end of their duties are published in the BODACC and recorded in the register.
- Court-appointed administrator413 annoncesProfessional appointed by the court to assist, supervise or administer a company in collective proceedings during the observation period.
- Court-appointed liquidator280687 annoncesLiquidator appointed by the court to realize the company's assets in liquidation and pay the creditors according to the legal order of priority.
- CreditorPerson or organization to which the company owes a sum, whose rights in collective proceedings depend on the date of its claim and on its declaration.
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- Judge Commissioner413 annoncesJudge of the court who oversees collective proceedings on behalf of the court, rules on disputes and authorizes significant acts of the company.
- Judicial liquidation280687 annoncesCollective procedure that terminates the company's activity, sells its assets and distributes the proceeds among the creditors.
- Judicial reorganization122428 annoncesCollective proceedings opened when a company is in cessation of payments, with the aim of safeguarding it through a plan voted on with the creditors.
- Judicial representative122428 annoncesProfessional appointed by the court to represent the creditors, verify their claims and monitor the conduct of the collective proceedings.
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- Legal noticeMandatory publication of a legal notice in an authorized medium. It is distinct from the BODACC, which publishes official notices from court registries and courts.
- Legal notices journalPublication authorized in each department where companies publish their notices, before their inclusion in the BODACC.
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- Register of Commerce and CompaniesRegister maintained by the registries of the commercial courts, where each company is registered and from which the BODACC draws its notices.
- Registered officeOfficial address of the company, which determines its competent registry and which the BODACC carries over at each transfer or change.
- RegistrationRegistration of a company in the register that corresponds to it. It gives it its legal existence, its identification number and its first publication.
- RegistryRegistry service of the court that maintains the trade and companies register, receives company filings and transmits published data to BODACC.
- Reorganization plan29048 annoncesDecision of the court that halts the continuation of the business and organizes the payment of creditors over several financial years, instead of a liquidation or a transfer.
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- Safeguard procedure10159 annoncesCollective proceedings opened at the request of a company in difficulty that is not yet in cessation of payments.
- Single windowOnline service mandatory since 2023 to register, amend or close a business with the business register.
- SIRENNine-digit identification number assigned to each French legal entity. It identifies a company unambiguously in the announcements.
- SIRETA fourteen-digit identification number that designates a specific establishment of a company. It links an activity to an identified legal unit.
- Sole proprietorshipActivity carried on in one's own name by a natural person, without a company or partners, whose creation and deregistration are published in the BODACC.
- Statement of claims176833 annoncesDocument drawn up by the court-appointed liquidator that lists the claims filed in collective proceedings and determines which ones are admitted.
- Statutory auditorStatutory auditor responsible for certifying the accounts of certain companies. Their appointment and the end of their term of office are published.
- Striking offA registration that terminates a company's presence in the trade and companies register, and whose publication in the BODACC informs third parties.
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Données : BODACC, DILA — dernière parution le 10/29/2026.