FICOBA (“Fichier national des comptes bancaires et assimilés”) is the French nationwide register containing details about all of the bank accounts in France. French bailiffs (“huissiers”) can depend on FICOBA to to facilitate the enforcement of an enforceable title or upon a request for data within the context of an EAPO continuing . In January 2021, the Paris Court of Appeal found discriminatory the fact that creditors might obtain FICOBA info within the context of an EAPO continuing but not in the context of the equal French domestic provisional attachment order, the “saisie conservatoire”. While an enforceable title just isn’t a essential precondition to access FICOBA in the context of an EAPO, under French domestic law it’s. Against this background, the French courtroom discovered that creditors who could apply for an EAPO were in a extra advantageous place than those that couldn’t.
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