31The notion of third parties is broader than that of ‘creditors, including debenture holders, and persons having other claims on the merging companies’ contained in the sixth recital in the preamble to Directive 78/855, specific provisions having been put in place to protect those creditors and debenture holders, notably in Articles 13 to 15 Directive 78/855.
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