Subsection 1: Value-added services

The electronic communications operator, within the meaning of 6° of Article L. 32 du code des postes et des communications électroniques, exploitant un numéro à valeur ajoutée, son abonné auquel ce numéro est affecté et, s’il est différent, le fournisseur du produit ou du service à valeur ajoutée mettent gratuitement à la disposition des consommateurs un outil accessible en ligne permettant d’identifier, from the call or text message number, the…

The trader in a contractual relationship with the consumer shall inform the consumer, on his website, of the existence of this tool and the means of accessing it.

The subscribers and suppliers of added-value products or services concerned may not object to the communication and publication by third parties of the information mentioned in the first paragraph of Article L. 224-43 with a view to constituting the tool referred to in the same paragraph.

I.-The operator shall provide, in the contract with the subscriber to whom it assigns a value-added number, on pain of termination, that the subscriber informs it of any change concerning his identity and address, which must appear in the contract. The contract also provides, on pain of suspension of access to the numbers concerned, which may be followed by termination of the contract in the event of repetition, that the…

A mechanism for reporting anomalies concerning a value-added number enables consumers to report in a clear, precise and comprehensible manner: 1° If one or more of the items of information that must appear in the tool provided for in article L. 224-43 are absent, inaccurate, obsolete or incomplete; 2° If the associated service does not comply with the ethical rules laid down by the operator; 3° If the consumer is…

I.-The operator mentioned in the first paragraph of Article L. 224-43 provides, in the cases provided for in II of Article L. 224-46, to suspend access to the number and, where applicable, to terminate the contract in the event of a repeat occurrence under the conditions set out in III of the same article L. 224-46. II.-.In the event that the operator mentioned in the first paragraph of article L….

The provisions of articles L. 224-43 to L. 224-47 apply without prejudice to other legal or contractual grounds for suspension or termination, including ethical grounds.

The costs of setting up and operating the tool are shared by the professionals mentioned in the first paragraph of article L. 224-43.

Any supplier of a value-added product or service referred to in the first paragraph of Article L. 224-43 retains, for a minimum period of five years after termination of the contractual relationship, the contact details of any co-contracting service provider associated with the promotion of the product or service.

Any provider of a voice communications service, within the meaning of 7° of article L. 32 of the French Post and Electronic Communications Code, offers consumers with whom it has a contractual relationship a system enabling them to report, via text messages, unsolicited calls and text messages from professionals and the telephone number of the sender. This system may be pooled by several of the providers mentioned in the first…