An application by an approved consumer protection association for it to be substituted for the rights of the applicant association pursuant to the provisions of Article L. 623-31 is made by way of incidental application.
The court shall rule, at the request of the association that referred the matter to it, on the transfer of all or part of the advance that may have been awarded pursuant to the provisions of article L. 623-12.
The decision rejecting the request for substitution is not subject to appeal.
The substitution entails the transfer of the mandate given by the consumers to the substituted association.The defaulting association shall hand over the documents as well as the funds held, where applicable on behalf of consumers, to the association which is substituted for it, which shall acknowledge receipt thereof. The defaulting association is not discharged of its obligations until such time as this is done.
Civil disputes arising from the application of this Code shall, where the amount of the claim does not exceed €5,000, be governed by the rules relating to referral by application in accordance with the provisions of articles 756 to 759 of the Code of Civil Procedure.
Civil disputes arising from the application of this code may be subject to the procedure defined by articles 1425-1 to 1425-9 of the Code of Civil Procedure.
The consumer may bring the matter either before one of the courts having territorial jurisdiction under the Code of Civil Procedure, or before the court for the place where he resided when the contract was concluded or when the harmful event occurred.
When imposing a sentence, the judge may, even of his own motion, for reasons of equity or the economic situation of the professional convicted, charge him in full with the proportional recovery or collection fees provided for in the article L. 111-8 du code des procédures civiles d’exécution.
The court may raise all the provisions of this code ex officio in disputes arising from its application.It shall exclude ex officio, after having heard the parties’ observations, the application of a clause whose unfairness is apparent from the elements of the debate.
Sont applicables dans les îles Wallis et Futuna, sous réserve des adaptations prévues à l’article R. 652-2, les dispositions des articles mentionnés dans la colonne de gauche du tableau ci-après, dans leur rédaction indiquée dans la colonne de droite du même tableau: ARTICLES APPLICABLES DANS LE RÉDACTION R. 623-1 to R. 623-3 Resulting from decree no. 2016-884 of 29 June 2016 R. 623-4 Décret n° 2019-1333 du 11 décembre 2019…
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