Section 2: Model agencies

Models may be placed for remuneration. Any person established on national territory who carries out the activity defined in the first paragraph must hold a modelling agency licence. Model agencies legally established in another Member State of the European Union or party to the Agreement on the European Economic Area may carry out this activity on a temporary and occasional basis on national territory, provided they have declared their activity…

Any natural or legal person whose activity consists of making models temporarily available to users, for consideration, is deemed to be operating a modelling agency if it hires and remunerates models for this purpose.

The provisions relating to unlawful lending of labour set out in Article L. 8241-1 do not apply to the activity of operating a modelling agency when this is carried out by a person carrying out the activity of modelling agency under the conditions set out in Article L. 7123-11.

The issue of a model agency licence by the administrative authority is subject to conditions determined by regulation. Where an agency is legally established in another Member State of the European Union or party to the Agreement on the European Economic Area, account is taken of the equivalent requirements to which it is already subject. The licence lapses if its holder does not produce, by specified deadlines, documents proving that…

Model agencies shall take all necessary measures to guarantee the defence of the interests of the models they employ and to avoid situations of conflict of interest. A decree of the Conseil d’Etat shall set the conditions under which they make public the other professional activities carried out by their managers, company directors, partners and employees, as well as the measures taken to comply with the first paragraph. It also…