Section 4: Criminal provisions.

Any person operating a modelling agency who fails to conclude a written employment contract with each model they employ, in breach of the provisions of article L. 7123-5, is punishable by six months’ imprisonment and a fine of 75,000 euros.

Any person operating a modelling agency who has drawn up an employment contract that does not include a precise definition of its purpose, in breach of the provisions of article L. 7123-5, is liable to six months’ imprisonment and a fine of 75,000 euros.

Operating a modelling agency without holding a modelling agency licence or without first declaring the activity, in breach of the provisions of article L. 7123-11, is punishable by six months’ imprisonment and a fine of 75,000 euros.

Failure by any person operating a modelling agency or engaging the services of a model for remuneration to comply with the obligation set out in article L. 7123-2-1 is punishable by six months’ imprisonment and a fine of €75,000.

Any person operating a modelling agency who makes a model available to a user without concluding a written availability contract or one that does not specify the characteristics of the service required of the model, in breach of the provisions of the first and second paragraphs of article L. 7123-17, is punishable by six months’ imprisonment and a fine of 75,000 euros. Failure to provide the model with a copy…

Any person operating a modelling agency who fails to provide a financial guarantee, in breach of the provisions of article L. 7123-19, is liable to six months’ imprisonment and a fine of 75,000 euros.

Any person operating a modelling agency who fails to provide a financial guarantee resulting from a guarantee given in breach of the provisions of article L. 7123-20 is liable to six months’ imprisonment and a fine of 75,000 euros.

Where the financial guarantee provided for in article L. 7123-19 is insufficient, failure by any user to take the place of the modelling agency for the payment of sums still due to employees and social security bodies, in disregard of the provisions of article L. 7123-21, is punishable by six months’ imprisonment and a fine of 75,000 euros.

Any person operating a modelling agency who fails to provide the user, at his or her request, with a certificate from the social security bodies, in breach of the provisions of article L. 7123-22, is punishable by six months’ imprisonment and a fine of 75,000 euros.