Judicial clarifications on the notion of duration of established commercial relations
Under the terms of the fifth paragraph of Article L.442-6 of the Commercial Code, the author is held liable and requires him to repair the damage caused by the fact of "brutally severing, even partially, an established commercial relationship, without written notice taking into account the duration of the commercial relationship ...
GTC
In the context of relations between the supplier and the distributor or the service provider, the Hamon law has imposed the communication of the general conditions of sale (GTC) no later than 1 December (Art. L.441-7 of the French Commercial Code ). The Macron law has restricted the scope of this text insofar as,...
Consumer disputes
Ordinance No. 2015-1033 of August 20, 2015 transposes into French law Directive 2013/11/EU on the out-of-court settlement of consumer disputes. A new title, entitled "mediation of consumer disputes" is thus added to Book 1 of the Consumer Code. Scope ...
Limited companies: minimum number of shareholders
The law on the simplification of business life empowered the government to take measures by means of ordinance to reduce the minimum number of shareholders in unlisted public limited companies and to adapt...
Employees on boards of directors
The 2013 job security law imposed the designation of directors representing employees on the boards of certain companies. This mainly concerns public limited companies with a board of directors or a management board and a supervisory board. These companies...
Simplification of reporting obligations for companies
Ordinance No. 2015-682 of June 18, 2015 on the simplification of employers' social declarations was taken on the basis of Law No. 2014-1545 of December 20, 2014 on the simplification of business life which has empowered the government to take measures to simplify the ob...