Since March 2009, consumers will find it easier to fight against unjustified clauses in contracts they have signed due to a new statutory order: the French law provide two lists containing unjustified clauses.
Those lists have been developed according to the second and third paragraph of the article L.132-1 of the reformed consumer code. The first list contains clauses that are defined as unjustified, which makes it the company’s responsibility to prove the opposite. The second one however, lists the definitely unjustified clauses. These “black” clauses are considered forbidden and can’t be opposed to a consumer.
July 2009
