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Clauses which limit the freedom to operate of the retailer after the end of the contract must be limited to a period of one year.
Decision #17/21498 by the Paris Court of Appeals dated June 1, 2020

Clauses which limit the freedom to operate of the retailer after the end of the contract must be limited to a period of one year. Otherwise, they must be deemed unwritten, and are therefore not enforceable in accordance with Article L.341-2 of the French Commercial Code.

This is the reasoning applied in a decision dated June 1, 2020 by the Paris Court of Appeals, to a clause obliging the franchisee of a car wash network, without any time limitation, to stop using the blue and white colors appearing in the franchisor’s logo, after the end of the contractual relationship.