French Consumer Law is a comprehensive and comparative overview of French and EU law in this field, covering: advertising, unfair commercial practices, conditions for the validity of contracts, unfair terms, product conformity, latent defects, product safety.

French Consumer Law

Consumer associations together with representatives of the State and of businesses participate in various advisory bodies concerning matters of consumer protection.

Since the Law of 1 July 2010 , the National Consumer Institute (Institut national de la consommation), created by the Law of 22 December 1966 (Consumer Code, Article L. 822-1 et seq.) in order to provide technical support to consumer organizations, consolidate, produce and publish information, studies, investigations and tests and to implement training and education on consumer issues, has become the umbrella organization covering three commissions : the Unfair Terms Commission (Commission des clauses abusives), Consumer Safety Commission (Commission de sécurité des consommateurs) and the newly created Consumer Mediation Commission (Commission de la médiation de la consommation).

Which now share a joint department and director general.

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