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Article L3322-7 of the French Public Health Code

Cooperatives operating in the workplace may not sell on credit, or at a price lower than that of the local trade, the drinks included in the third, fourth and fifth groups defined by article L. 3321-1. These cooperatives may not hold a third or fourth category on-trade drinks licence. Any duly recorded breach of the provisions of the first paragraph of this article will be punished by the immediate withdrawal…

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Article L3322-9 of the French Public Health Code

It is forbidden to sell on credit, either by the glass or in bottles, drinks from the third, fourth and fifth groups for consumption on the premises or to take away. Except in the context of declared traditional festivals and fairs, or new ones authorised by the State representative in the département under conditions defined by decree in the Conseil d’Etat, or in the case of tastings with a view…

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Article L3322-11 of the French Public Health Code

The following are determined by decrees of the Conseil d’Etat, after consulting the Agence nationale chargée de la sécurité sanitaire de l’alimentation, de l’environnement et du travail and the Académie nationale de médecine: 1° The procedures for manufacturing, holding with a view to sale, offering for sale and selling any drink mentioned in Article L. 3321-1, in the preparation of which plants, parts of plants, plant extracts or another product…

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Article L3323-1 of the French Public Health Code

In all public houses, a display of non-alcoholic drinks offered for sale in the establishment is compulsory. The display must include at least ten bottles or containers and present, insofar as the outlet is supplied, at least one sample of each category of the following drinks: a) Fruit juices, vegetable juices ; b) Carbonated fruit juice drinks; c) Sodas ; d) Lemonades ; e) Syrups; f) Artificially carbonated or non-carbonated…

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Article L3323-2 of the French Public Health Code

Direct or indirect propaganda or advertising in favour of alcoholic beverages, the manufacture and sale of which are not prohibited, are authorised exclusively: 1° In the written press, excluding publications aimed at young people, as defined in the first paragraph of article 1 of law no. 49-956 of 16 July 1949 on publications aimed at young people; 2° By radio broadcasting for the categories of radio stations and in the…

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Article L3323-3 of the French Public Health Code

Indirect propaganda or advertising is propaganda or advertising in favour of a body, service, activity, product or article other than an alcoholic beverage which, by its design, presentation, use of a name, trademark, advertising emblem or other distinctive sign, is reminiscent of an alcoholic beverage. However, these provisions do not apply to propaganda or advertising in favour of a product other than an alcoholic beverage which was placed on the…

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Article L3323-3-1 of the French Public Health Code

Content, images, representations, descriptions, comments or references relating to a production region, place name, reference or geographical indication, terroir, itinerary, production area, know-how, history or cultural, gastronomic or landscape heritage associated with an alcoholic beverage with an identification of quality or origin, or protected underArticle L. 665-6 of the Rural and Maritime Fishing Code, are not considered to be advertising or propaganda within the meaning of this chapter.

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