Imposed

prices

The Commercial Code defines it as a criminal practice to impose a minimum character on a price or a commercial margin. The prohibition applies to any person, that is to say, natural or legal, trader or not, likely to engage in such a practice.

It relates to the price of a product, a good, a service, or a commercial margin.
In the context of franchise networks, the problem arises insofar as franchisor and franchisee act as an independent company. The franchisor can therefore in no way impose on its franchisee the prices it wishes to see applied in the network.

The duty-free solution is therefore that of recommended prices escaping the regulation of imposed prices. However, it is for the franchisor to be cautious because, in the event of flagrant harmonization of prices in the network throughout the territory, the Administration may see it as a disguised practice of minimum price imposed.
It should be noted that the maximum price charged is completely legal.