Key legal question
Whether costs incurred by the bankruptcy office between first-instance bankruptcy opening and appellate annulment count as costs that the debtor must have paid under Art. 174(2)(1) SchKG.
Extracted holding
Yes. Those bankruptcy office costs are part of the costs that must be covered before the bankruptcy opening can be annulled.
Extracted reasoning
The court held that the notion of costs in Arts. 174 and 68 SchKG includes not only the costs of opening and the appeal proceedings, but also the bankruptcy office costs accruing in the interim. The debtor must therefore prove payment of those costs as well, and the creditor may not suffer prejudice from an annulment.