Directed specifically to the business community and to legal practitioners and members of the legal academy who deal with business law issues concerning France.
This chapter sets out the most important substantive provisions regulating competition in France.
Business dealings which take place in French territory are subject to both French law and European Union law. In the case where a French legal provision conflicts with an EU law provision, EU law prevails.
Viewed broadly, consumer law designates those rules and regulations that aim at protecting consumers against unfair business practices.
The main source of French general commercial and company law (as well as bankruptcy law) is the Commercial Code (code de commerce). However, the Civil Code (code civil) and the Monetary and Financial Code (code monétaire et financier) also set out various provisions which apply to French companies.
The main source of French general commercial and company law (as well as bankruptcy law) is the Commercial Code (code de commerce).
French rules and regulations concerning insurance are codified in the Insurance Code.
The purpose of this chapter is to give an overview of the rules, as set out in the Labor Code, that govern the relationship between employers and employees in France.
In France, the legal profession consists not in a single united professional body but, rather, in several distinct professions.
The French Monetary and Financial Code (code monétaire et financier) is the main source of French money and banking regulations, and thus of French banking law.
This chapter gives an overview of the statutory provisions concerning supervision of the French stock markets as carried out by an independent regulatory authority: the Authorité des marchés financiers (AMF), which was established by the Law on Financial Security of August 1, 2003.
The French tax system, which is among the most sophisticated in the world, is composed of four principal branches: (i) direct taxes; (ii) turnover and consumption taxes (such as value added tax or “VAT”); (iii) registration and stamp taxes and (iv) customs duties.
