Subsection 1: Setting the payment deadline

Contracting authorities, including where they act as contracting entities, shall pay the sums due in principal under a concession contract within a period provided for therein or, failing that, within a period laid down by regulation, which may differ according to the category of contracting authority.Where a period for payment is provided for in the concession contract, it may not exceed the period laid down by regulation.

The contracting entities referred to in 2° and 3° of Article L. 1212-1 pay the sums due in principal under a concession contract within the period provided for in I of Article L. 441-10 and in 5° of II of Article L. 441-11 of the French Commercial Code.