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For consumer information purposes, the provisions of the Civil Code and the Consumer Code are reproduced below: 

 

Article 1641 of the Civil Code: The seller is bound by the guarantee for hidden defects in the thing sold which make it unfit for the use for which it is intended, or which reduce this use so much that the buyer would not have it not acquired, or would have given only a lower price, if he had known them. 

 

Article 1648 of the Civil Code: Action resulting from redhibitory defects must be brought by the purchaser within two years from the discovery of the defect.

 

In the case provided for by article 1642-1, the action must be brought, under penalty of foreclosure, within the year following the date on which the seller can be released from apparent defects or lack of conformity. 

 

Article L. 217-4 of the Consumer Code: The seller delivers goods in conformity with the contract and is liable for any lack of conformity existing at the time of delivery. 

 

He is also liable for defects in conformity resulting from the packaging, assembly instructions or installation when this has been his responsibility by the contract or has been carried out under his responsibility. 

 

Article L. 217-5 of the Consumer Code: The good complies with the contract: 

 

1° If it is suitable for the use usually expected of similar goods and, where applicable: 

• if it corresponds to the description given by the seller and has the qualities that the seller presented to the buyer in the form of a sample or model;

 

• if it presents the qualities that a buyer can legitimately expect having regard to the public declarations made by the seller, by the producer or by his representative, in particular in advertising or labeling;

 

2° Or if it presents the characteristics defined by mutual agreement by the parties or is suitable for any special use sought by the buyer, brought to the attention of the seller and which the latter has accepted. 

 

Article L. 217-12 of the Consumer Code: Action resulting from lack of conformity is prescribed two years from delivery of the goods. 

 

Article L. 217-16 of the Consumer Code: When the buyer requests from the seller, during the course of the commercial guarantee which was granted to him during the acquisition or repair of movable property, a restitution condition covered by the guarantee, any period of immobilization of at least seven days is added to the duration of the guarantee which remained to run. This period runs from the buyer's request for intervention or the making available for repair of the good in question, if this making available is subsequent to the request for intervention.