France: focus on the new exceptions to the principle of rest on Sunday

itutional Council validated most of the Mallié law aimed at facilitating appeal to work on Sunday in retail trade. It cancels the prior administrative approval in tourist areas and towns and creates a new exception within “extraordinary consumption perimeters.” (Ref. 090787)

Creating extraordinary consumption perimeters. In towns with over 1,000,000 inhabitants (Paris, Aix-Marseille, Lille), retail trade centers located within an “extraordinary consumption perimeter” (PUCE) can have their will