Section 2: Advance payments

Services that have begun to be performed are entitled to payments on account. Payments on account do not constitute final payments.

The amount of the payments on account corresponds to the value of the services to which they relate. Where applicable, it is reduced by the corresponding fraction of the guarantee deduction mentioned in article R. 2191-32.

The frequency of advance payments is set at a maximum of three months. When the contract holder is a small or medium-sized enterprise or a craftsman within the meaning of article R. 2151-13, a cooperative production company, an agricultural producers’ group, a craftsmen’s cooperative company, an artists’ cooperative company or an adapted company, this period is reduced to one month for works contracts and, at the request of the contract…