The Constitutional Council will have to rule on the logistical penalties inflicted by E.Leclerc on suppliers. The highest administrative court specifies that the leader of large-scale food distribution in France raised a priority question of constitutionality.
Logistics penalties are provided for in the contracts that supermarkets sign with their suppliers. If the contract is not respected, penalties may apply. But the government, relying in particular on the work of the Fraud Repression Agency, estimated that certain distributors are diverting these penalties “to restore their financial health”