Chapter II: Obligations and financial solidarity of principals and project owners.

When a contract is concluded, the subject of which is an obligation of a minimum amount with a view to the performance of work, the supply of services or the carrying out of a commercial act, and periodically until the end of the performance of the contract, any person shall check that his co-contractor is complying with: 1° the formalities referred to in articles L. 8221-3 and L. 8221-5; 2°…

Any person who disregards the provisions of article L. 8222-1, as well as any person convicted of having used, directly or through an intermediary, the services of a person who performs undeclared work, is jointly and severally liable with the person who has been the subject of an official report for the offence of undeclared work: 1° To the payment of taxes and compulsory contributions as well as penalties and…

The sums payable pursuant to article L. 8222-2 are determined in due proportion to the value of the work carried out, the services provided, the goods sold and the remuneration in force in the profession.

When the co-contractor operating on French territory is established or domiciled abroad, the obligations that must be verified are those that result from regulations of equivalent effect in the country of origin and those that apply to the co-contractor’s activity in France.

The client or the person placing the order, informed in writing by an inspection officer mentioned in article L. 8271-7 or by a trade union or a professional association or an institution representing the personnel, of the intervention of the co-contractor, a sub-contractor or a sub-delegatee in an irregular situation with regard to the formalities mentioned in articles L. 8221-3 and L. 8221-5 , immediately enjoins his co-contractor to put…

Without prejudice to articles L. 8222-1 to L. 8222-3, any legal entity governed by public law that has entered into a contract with a company, informed in writing by a monitoring officer of the irregular situation of this company with regard to the formalities mentioned in articles L. 8221-3 and L. 8221-5, immediately enjoins this company to put an end to this situation without delay. The company so ordered shall…

A decree of the Conseil d’Etat shall determine the conditions of application of the provisions of this chapter.