The date of receipt of the request for payment and the date of performance of the services shall be established by the services of the contracting authority or, where applicable, by the project manager or the person authorised for this purpose.Failing this, the date of the request for payment plus two days shall be deemed authentic. In the event of a dispute, it is up to the creditor to provide…
When the request for payment is sent electronically pursuant to Articles L. 2192-1 to L. 2192-3, the date of receipt of the request for payment by the contracting authority corresponds to : 1° Where invoices are sent by electronic data interchange, the date on which the State’s budgetary and accounting information system time-stamps the arrival of the invoice and, for other contracting authorities, the date of notification of the electronic…
For the payment of the balance of works or project management contracts concluded by the State, its public establishments of a non-industrial and non-commercial nature, local authorities and their public establishments, the payment period runs from the date of receipt by the project owner of the general and final account drawn up in accordance with the conditions set out in the general administrative clauses applicable to works contracts and project…
Where the contract provides for a procedure to verify the conformity of the services, it may provide that the payment period shall run from the date on which such conformity is established, if this date is later than the date of receipt of the request for payment.The duration of the verification procedure may not exceed thirty days. However, the contract may provide for a longer period, provided that this does…
If the contracting authority has recourse to a project manager or any other service provider whose intervention is conditional on the payment of sums due, the intervention of the project manager or service provider does not alter the payment deadline imposed on the contracting authority.
The contract concluded by the State, its public establishments other than industrial and commercial establishments, local authorities or their public establishments with the project manager or any other service provider shall specify the period within which the latter must carry out its work. If the work is carried out after the date on which the payment period began to run, this period may not exceed fifteen days.
The project manager or the service provider authorised to receive requests for payment must indicate the date of receipt or submission of the creditor’s request for payment in the statement that he sends to the contracting authority for payment.
The contract includes stipulations on the penalties incurred as a result of failure to comply with the time limit mentioned in article R. 2192-19 or the obligation provided for in article R. 2192-20, as well as the method of calculation. It also provides for the option for the contracting authority to carry out or have carried out, after formal notice, the services at the expense of the defaulting party.
The payment period for subcontractors benefiting from direct payment pursuant to Article L. 2193-10 is identical to that applicable to the contractor. This period runs from the date on which the contracting authority becomes aware of the holder’s express or implicit acceptance of the supporting documents serving as a basis for direct payment.
For contracts concluded by the State, its public establishments other than those of an industrial and commercial nature, local authorities and their public establishments, the period for payment by the subcontractor runs from receipt by the contracting authority of the agreement, total or partial, of the holder of a contract to the payment requested. In the absence of notification of an agreement or refusal by the holder within the period…
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