If the creditor has not begun debt enforcement proceedings or filed an action before the attachment is authorised, he must do so within ten days of service of the deed of attachment.
If the debtor files an objection to the summons for payment, the creditor must within ten days of receiving the creditor’s copy of the summons apply to have the objection set aside or file an action for the recognition of his claim. If his application to have the objection set aside is rejected, he must file the action within ten days of receiving notice of the decision492.493
If the debtor has not filed an objection to the summons for payment, the creditor must within 20 days of receiving the creditor’s copy of the summons file a request for continuation of the proceedings. If the objection to the summons is subsequently dismissed, the 20-day period begins once the dismissal of the objection is legally binding. Depending on the debtor’s legal personality, the debt enforcement proceedings shall be continued by way of debt enforcement proceedings by distraint or of debt enforcement proceedings through bankruptcy.494
If the creditor has filed a court action in respect of his claim without prior debt enforcement proceedings, he must begin debt enforcement proceedings within ten days of receiving notice of the decision.
The deadlines in this Article do not run:
during the opposition proceedings and in the event of an appeal against the decision on opposition;