The act of accepting, holding or using any unauthorised monetary sign intended to replace coins or banknotes that are legal tender in France is punishable in accordance with article R. 642-2 of the French Penal Code.
Refusing to accept coins or banknotes that are legal tender in France according to their value is punishable in accordance with article R. 642-3 of the French Penal Code.
Using coins or banknotes that are legal tender in France or issued by foreign or international institutions authorised for this purpose as a medium for any form of advertising is punishable in accordance with article R. 642-4 of the French Criminal Code.
Any person who has received counterfeit or falsified coins or banknotes that are legal tender in France and refuses to hand them over or have them handed over to the Banque de France or the public institution La Monnaie de Paris shall be punished in accordance with article R. 645-9 of the French Criminal Code.
I. – Any employee of : 1° of a credit institution, La Poste, an electronic money institution, a payment institution, one of their agents, a person referred to in Article L. 525-8 or a bureau de change, fails to withdraw from circulation, prior to issuing euro banknotes received from the public, banknotes which he has sufficient reason to believe to be counterfeit; An employee who can prove that he has…
Requiring or inducing, by any means whatsoever, directly or indirectly, for the payment of a sum in excess of 15 euros, the delivery of one or more cheques for an amount less than or equal to 15 euros is punishable by the fine laid down for 5th class offences. A repeat offence under this article is punishable in accordance with article 132-11 of the Criminal Code.
Any person who questions the Banque de France about the legality of a cheque without complying with the conditions set out in the first paragraph of article R. 131-5 is liable to a 5th class fine. A repeat offence under this article is punishable in accordance with article 132-11 of the Criminal Code. The same penalty shall apply to any agent who fails to comply with the provisions of the…
It is an offence for any person responsible in any capacity whatsoever for the management or administration of a credit institution or one of the institutions or services mentioned in Article L. 518-1 of the French Monetary and Financial Code, with the exception of the French Treasury, to charge a customer for electronic payment transactions in euros or credit transfers in euros up to a maximum amount of 50,000 euros…
Any breach of the statistical reporting obligations set out in Articles R. 152-1 to R. 152-3 is punishable in accordance with Article L. 165-1.
Anyone who contravenes the obligation to declare set out in article R. 151-11 is liable to a fine equal to the maximum amount applicable to 4th class offences.
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