Chapter I: General obligation to provide pre-contractual information

Any person carrying on the activity referred to in the ninth paragraph of Article L. 111-7 displays, in a legible and comprehensible manner, at the top of each page of comparison results and before the offers are ranked, the following information: 1° The default criterion used for ranking tenders and the definition of this criterion, unless the default ranking criterion used is price. The definition is indicated, close to the…

Without prejudice to the information obligations set out in articles L. 221-5 and L. 222-5 applicable to distance sellers of products and services, any person carrying out the activity mentioned in the ninth paragraph of article L. 111-7 shall display, in a legible and comprehensible manner, close to each offer of products or services which it proposes to compare, the following information: 1° The essential characteristics of the goods or…

En application de l’article 20 de la loi n° 2004-575 du 21 juin 2004 pour la confiance dans l’économie numérique et dans l’exercice de l’activité définie au neuvième alinéa de l’article L. 111-7, only offers of goods or services listed for a fee, and whose ranking depends on this payment, show their advertising nature by mentioning the word “Ads” on the results display page of the comparator site.

I.-The threshold for the number of connections above which online platform operators are subject to the obligations of Article L. 111-7-1 is set at five million unique visitors per month, per platform, calculated on the basis of the last calendar year. An online platform operator whose number of connections exceeds the threshold mentioned in the first paragraph has six months to comply with Article L. 111-7-1. II.-For the application of…

For the application of the provisions of Article L. 111-7-2, an online review means the expression of a consumer’s opinion on their consumer experience through any element of assessment, whether qualitative or quantitative. The consumer experience is understood to be whether or not the consumer has purchased the good or service for which he or she has submitted a review. Online reviews within the meaning of Article L. 111-7-2 do…

Any person carrying on the activity referred to in Article L. 111-7-2 shall indicate clearly and visibly:

When the person carrying out the activity mentioned in Article L. 111-7-2 exercises control over notices, he/she shall ensure that the processing of personal data carried out in this context complies with the loi n° 78-17 du 6 janvier 1978 relative à l’informatique, aux fichiers et aux libertés modifiée et précise dans la rubrique prévue au 2° de l’article D. 111-17 : 1° The main characteristics of the control of…

When the person carrying out the activity referred to in Article L. 111-7-2 refuses to publish a notice, it shall inform the author of the reasons for refusal by any appropriate means.