French Consumer Law
Auteurs : Louis Vogel, Joseph Vogel
Sommaire de l’ouvrage
Introduction
Title 1: Advertising
Title 2: Prohibited Commercial Practices
Section 1: Union law
Section 2: Scope of application
I: Object of the comparison
A: Absence of misleading character
2°: Requirement of fairness
C: Absence of parasitism
D: Absence of discredit or disparagement
E: Absence of confusion
III: Proof of the accuracy of the message
Section 4: Sanctions
Chapter 2: Promotional offers
Chapter 3: Price reduction announcements
Part 2: Sale
Part 3: After Sale
299. Individual or collective assessments
1 minute de lecture
Initially, Article L. 122-1 of the Consumer Code precluded comparisons based on “individual or collective opinions or assessments” in order to discourage any recourse by advertisers to opinion polls or interviews. Thus, an advertisement that appeared in a medical journal which was based on the opinion of 150 physicians interviewed under unknown and unreliable conditions, was deemed unlawful . The …
