French Consumer Law
Auteurs : Louis Vogel, Joseph Vogel
Sommaire de l’ouvrage
Introduction
Part 1: Advertising and sales promotion
Title 1: Conditions of validity
Chapter 1: Compatibility with Union law
A: Status as consumer
II: Concept of professional
Section 2: Regulated contract
Section 3: Exclusions
Chapter 3: Review of significant imbalance
Chapter 4: Sanction of unfair terms
Title 3: Distance and off-premises contracts
Title 4: Other sales techniques
Part 3: After Sale
405. Status as non-professional
1 minute de lecture
Contrary to the concept of consumer, that of non-professional was not defined either in national law or in Union law, which does not recognize it. It therefore fell to case law to define its scope.
1) Criterion of incompetence or lack of specialty
Initially, the courts used the subjective criterion of professional competence to define non-professionals and delimit the scope of the law. According …
