Zaštita prava obezbeđenih poverilaca u postupku prodaje imovine stečajnog dužnika

Abstract

Securing claims by way of real assets such as mortgage or chattel mortgage has great significance for the operation of banks and other economic entities. Opening bankruptcy proceedings over the owner of the real estate under mortgage or movable property under chattel mortgage has a significant impact on the process of exercising rights and the position of secured creditors. Bankruptcy framework in the Republic of Serbia limits their rights on the one hand, and provides extensive guarantees, on the other, by prescribing several specific institutes that additionally protect the rights of secured creditors in the procedures of bankruptcy debtor asset sales, which is the topic of this paper. Provisions of the Law have been analyzed, positions of the judicial practice as well as opinions of the jurisprudence on secured creditors as a special category. Special attention was paid to the impact of the legal prohibition of individual enforcement for the settlement of claims from the assets that are under any burdens as well as the cancellation of moratorium. Significance of the right of the creditor to offset its secured claim against purchase price has been explained in detail in case of the best bidder (credit bidding) as well as the legal preemptive right on the subject of secured right or lien, in case of sales method by direct agreement. Also, rules were considered that condition the possibility of leasing assets under burden of the bankruptcy debtor with the consent of secured creditors.