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Reserve risks to pay 70 million euros for “restrictive competition practices” for hoteliers

The platform has until December 31 to meet, under the penalty of a “daily financial start, whose total amount can reach 69.35 million euros.”

The online reservation platform was set in France for “restrictive competition practices” towards French hoteliers for fraud repression (DGCCRF), which orders compliance at the end of 2025, the latter announced in a statement. The reserve has until December 31, no later than complying with the “uncomplicated clauses and practices” in their contracts with hoteliers, under the penalty of a “daily financial fine whose total amount can reach 69.35 million euros”, specifies in its press release the general management of competition, consumption and repression of fraud (DGCCRF).

This decision is based on European legislation, the P2B regulation, which forces platforms with more transparency to companies, as well as the French commercial code. According to the DGCCRF, an address of the French Ministry of Economy, the general conditions of the services (CGP) of the reserve “include manifestly unbalanced clauses to the detriment of French hoteliers.”

“Obviously unbalanced clauses”

The DGCCRF stipulates that, according to the Commercial Code, “it is prohibited to try to present or present to the other party the obligations that create a significant imbalance in the rights and obligations of the parties.” However, “hindering commercial freedom and fixing hotel prices, notably, contravenes this article,” he says. The P2B regulation forces the platforms in particular to “guarantee the accessibility of the general conditions, which must be written clearly and understandable”, and “notify user companies, with lasting support, any change provided in their general conditions.”

And “in case of suspension or termination of the account of a user company, the platform must systematically send a presentation of the reasons,” he added.

The reserve platform, whose parent company is in the Netherlands, said that “although the reservation does not agree with the conclusions of the survey”, the company is actively dissipate all [ses] Accommodation partners in France, while satisfying the needs of consumers. “

Author: OC with AFP
Source: BFM TV

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