The Regional Director for Business, Competition, Consumption, Labour and Employment will send the employer who has not fulfilled the obligations in terms of equal pay for men and women as defined in the first two paragraphs of Article L. 2242-8, by any means capable of establishing a date of receipt, a reasoned notification of the rate of penalty applied to it, within two months of the date of expiry of the formal notice provided for in article R. 2242-3, and asks it to communicate in return the amount of earnings and remuneration used as a basis for calculating the penalty in accordance with article R. 2242-7 within two months. Failing this, the penalty is calculated on the basis of twice the value of the monthly social security ceiling per month included in the period mentioned in article R. 2242-7.
The Regional Director of Companies, Competition, Consumption, Labour and Employment issues a collection order which is taken care of by the Departmental or Regional Director of Public Finances, who is responsible for collecting it as in the case of debts unrelated to taxes and property.