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Article L3321-1 of the French Public Health Code

For the purposes of regulating their manufacture, sale and consumption, beverages are divided into four groups:

1° Non-alcoholic beverages: mineral or carbonated waters, fruit or vegetable juices that are unfermented or do not contain traces of alcohol in excess of 1.2 degrees following the start of fermentation, lemonades, syrups, infusions, milk, coffee, tea and chocolate;

2° (repealed)

3° Non-distilled fermented beverages and natural sweet wines: wine, beer, cider, perry, mead, to which natural sweet wines are added, as well as crèmes de cassis and fermented fruit or vegetable juices containing from 1.2 to 3 degrees of alcohol, liqueur wines, wine-based aperitifs and strawberry, raspberry, blackcurrant or cherry liqueurs, containing not more than 18 degrees of pure alcohol;

4° Rum, tafias, alcohols obtained from the distillation of wine, cider, perry or fruit, and containing no added petrol, as well as liqueurs sweetened with sugar, glucose or honey at a rate of at least 400 grams per litre for aniseed-flavoured liqueurs and at least 200 grams per litre for other liqueurs and containing no more than half a gram of petrol per litre;

5° All other alcoholic beverages.

Original in French 🇫🇷
Article L3321-1

Les boissons sont, en vue de la réglementation de leur fabrication, de leur mise en vente et de leur consommation, réparties en quatre groupes :

1° Boissons sans alcool : eaux minérales ou gazéifiées, jus de fruits ou de légumes non fermentés ou ne comportant pas, à la suite d’un début de fermentation, de traces d’alcool supérieures à 1,2 degré, limonades, sirops, infusions, lait, café, thé, chocolat ;

2° (abrogé)

3° Boissons fermentées non distillées et vins doux naturels : vin, bière, cidre, poiré, hydromel, auxquelles sont joints les vins doux naturels, ainsi que les crèmes de cassis et les jus de fruits ou de légumes fermentés comportant de 1,2 à 3 degrés d’alcool, vins de liqueur, apéritifs à base de vin et liqueurs de fraises, framboises, cassis ou cerises, ne titrant pas plus de 18 degrés d’alcool pur ;

4° Rhums, tafias, alcools provenant de la distillation des vins, cidres, poirés ou fruits, et ne supportant aucune addition d’essence ainsi que liqueurs édulcorées au moyen de sucre, de glucose ou de miel à raison de 400 grammes minimum par litre pour les liqueurs anisées et de 200 grammes minimum par litre pour les autres liqueurs et ne contenant pas plus d’un demi-gramme d’essence par litre ;

5° Toutes les autres boissons alcooliques.

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