Chapter I: Distance and off-premises contracts

I. – For the purposes of this Title, the following are deemed to be: 1° Distance contract: any contract concluded between a trader and a consumer, under an organised distance sales or service-provision scheme, without the simultaneous physical presence of the trader and the consumer, through the exclusive use of one or more means of distance communication until the conclusion of the contract; 2° Off-premises contract: any contract concluded between…

Excluded from the scope of this chapter are:

The provisions of sections 2, 3, 6 of this chapter applicable to relations between consumers and professionals, are extended to contracts concluded off-premises between two professionals provided that the subject of these contracts does not fall within the scope of the principal activity of the professional solicited and that the number of employees employed by the latter is less than or equal to five.

The provisions of this chapter shall apply to contracts for the supply of water, gas or electricity where they are not packaged in a delimited volume or in a specific quantity, and to the supply of district heating. They also apply to contracts for the supply of digital content without a physical medium.