Title V: Criminal provisions

Warehousemen who are not manufacturers or importers and retailers who offer for sale or offer free of charge alcoholic beverages whose labels do not bear the required information or bear information prohibited by Book III of this Part are liable to a fine of 2nd class.

Failure by an on-trade operator to set up a display of non-alcoholic beverages offered for sale in his establishment in accordance with the conditions set out in article L. 3323-1 is punishable by a 4th class fine. Failure to offer the non-alcoholic beverages listed in the second paragraph of article L. 3323-1 at a reduced price, under equivalent conditions, during the restricted period provided for in the last paragraph of…

Establishing a public house at a fair, sale or celebration open to the public without having obtained authorisation from the municipal authorities is punishable by a 4th class fine.

Establishing a 3rd or 4th category on-trade premises without respecting the distances determined by prefectoral decree from existing premises in the same categories is punishable by a 5th class fine. A repeat offence under this article is punishable in accordance with article 132-11 of the Criminal Code.

As stated in Article R. 4743-7 of the French Labour Code, reproduced below: “Art. R. 4743-7 – Any operator of an on-trade public house who, without having obtained the authorisation provided for in article R. 4153-8, employs or trains minors, with the exception of the owner’s spouse or his or her parents or relatives up to and including the fourth degree, is liable to a fifth-class fine. Repeated offences are…