This provision was adopted as part of the proposed law to amend the
Civil liability for the things of sports practitioners in places reserved for the practice of sports and
better manage the sale of access tickets to sporting, commercial and cultural events and
live performances
It will make it possible to fight effectively against the practice of acquiring, in the usual way, the securities
access to a sporting, cultural, commercial or live performance, without the authorization of the
producer or organiser, and for resale at very high prices on the second market.
Such a practice is detrimental to public access to culture and sporting events, through
the drying up of the primary market, the artificial increase in the prices of the said tickets as well as various
fraud reported by consumer associations.
The adopted provision, which does not apply to the occasional resale to a third party, also addresses a
prevention of the risks of disturbances of public order in the context of mass gatherings and in particular
sports competitions.
It will protect the rights of event organizers, theatre operators and
artists, faced with the abuses observed in the second ticket market.
The two Ministers welcomed the consensus, the provision of which was enriched by the amendment of the rapporteur Eric
Berdoati, was the subject and welcome the importance of the work done on the subject, in connection with the organizations
professionals in the sector, notably following the report submitted by Jacques Renard to the Minister of Culture
and communication, and the various initiatives carried out by Muriel Marland-Militello.