Enacted parts

ARTICLE 132-13
(Act no. 2001-504 of 12 June 2001 Article 15 Official Journal of 13 June 2001)
(Ordinance No. 2000-916 of 19 September 2000 Article 3 Official Journal of 22 September 2000 into force 1 January
2002)
Where a legal person which has already received a final sentence in relation to a felony or a misdemeanour legally
punishable in the case of a natural person by a fine of €100,000 incurs criminal liability for a misdemeanour punishable
by the same penalty within a period of ten years from when the previous sentence expired or became time-barred, the
maximum fine which may be imposed is ten times that provided by the statute by which the misdemeanour is
punishable. 
Where a legal person which has already received a final sentence for a felony or for a misdemeanour legally
punishable in the case of natural persons by a fine of €100,000, incurs within a period of five years from when the
previous sentence expired or became time-barred criminal liability for a misdemeanour which by statute is punishable in
the case of natural persons with a fine of more than €15,000, the maximum fine which may be imposed is ten times that
provided by the statute by which the misdemeanour is punishable.
ARTICLE 132-14
Where a legal person which has already received a final sentence for a misdemeanour incurs within a period of five
years from when the previous sentence expired or became time-barred criminal liability for either the
same-misdemeanour or a misdemeanour assimilated to it under the rules governing recidivism, the maximum fine which
may be imposed is ten times that provided for natural persons by the statute punishing the misdemeanour.
ARTICLE 132-15
Where a regulation so provides, a legal person which has already received a final sentence for a petty offence of
the fifth class incurs criminal liability for the same petty offence within a period of one year from when the penalty for the
of the previous offence expired or became time-barred, the maximum fine which may be imposed is ten times that
provided for natural persons by the regulation punishing the petty offence.
Paragraph 3
General provisions
Articles 132-16 to
132-16-2
ARTICLE 132-16
Theft, extortion, blackmail, fraudulent obtaining and breach of trust are considered to be the same offence in respect
of the rules governing recidivism.