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

Conformity is a protean concept that covers various aspects of the contractual relationship. First, upstream, the general obligation of conformity, which, under Article L. 411-1 (former Article L. 212-1) of the Consumer Code, is binding on every person responsible for the first placing on the market of a product, requires assessment of the compatibility of the goods with the standards and regulations in force. Second, the obligation to supply compliant goods resulting from the ordinary law on the sale of goods aims to ensure consistency between the contractual specifications and the goods delivered. Moreover, the legal and commercial guarantees of conformity of the Consumer Code, resulting in particular from the transposition of Directive No 1999/44 on certain aspects of the sale and warranty of consumer goods, repealed on 1 January 2022 and replaced by Directive No 2019/771 since 20 May 2019, fall within the concept of conformity. Finally, the law of deception and falsification is the foundation of the criminal repression of non-conformity.

488. Product conformity