How do I know if a company is the subject of a class action?
Verified 22 October 2025 - Directorate of Legal and Administrative Information (Prime Minister)
To find out if a collective procedure is available against a company, it is possible to consult several specialist sites free of charge. When collective proceedings are opened, the court appoints a judicial representative or a liquidator who must inform the creditors.
A company can check the financial situation of any company with which it wishes to enter into a business relationship: a supplier, a service provider or a new customer, etc.
For this, she can consult the following specialized sites which will enable him to know whether a collective procedure is open to a company.
Official bulletin of civil and commercial announcements (bodacc.fr)
The Official Bulletin of Civil and Commercial Advertisements (Bodacc.fr) references all the companies in the collective procedure.
Thus, when a company is the subject of a collective proceeding, the opening judgment must be published in Bodacc within 15 days.
Consult the Official Bulletin of Civil and Commercial Advertisements (bodacc.fr)
FYI
The site bodacc.fr allows to create free of charge an “Alert” account to receive daily all published ads corresponding to predefined search criteria.
Directory of companies
This site allows you to know all the legal and financial information (legal form, amount of turnover, etc.) of a company.
This site also indicates whether a company is the subject of a collective proceeding by clicking on the tab "Announcements and observations".
Company Legal Advertising Portal (PPLE)
The company Legal Advertising Portal (pple.fr) provides free, real-time access to companies' legal information: whether there is a collective procedure, but also changes, transfers, number of establishments, publication of accounts, etc.
When collective proceedings are initiated against a company in difficulty, its creditors are directly informed.
The company in difficulty must submit the list of its creditors to the judicial representative , at judicial liquidator or atinsolvency administrator (depending on the company's size and turnover).
The judicial representative then informs the creditor by simple letter within 15 days of the judgment opening the collective proceedings. The creditor then has a 2 months delay from the publication of the collective procedure in the Official Bulletin of Civil and Commercial Advertisements (bodacc.fr) for declare its claim.
This declaration gives him the possibility of obtaining the settlement of his claim. The creditor who has not declared his claim within the 2-month period will not be paid: he is considered as “forclos”.
Delivery of the list of claims to the administrator and the judicial representative
Time limit within which the court-appointed representative must notify creditors
Delivery of the list of claims to the administrator and the judicial representative
Declaration of claim to the judicial representative in a safeguard
Declaration of claim to the judicial representative in a receivership
Declaration of claim to the judicial liquidator in a judicial liquidation
Time limit within which the court-appointed representative must notify creditors