The court last year refused to hear a constitutional challenge to the criminal provision.

In addition to criminal provisions, the French labor code also prohibits sexual harassment.

"In such circumstances, this criminal provision would, in my view, create an undue chilling effect."

They argued that existing civil and criminal provisions copyright infringement are ineffective.

The Mayor mentioned the criminal provision briefly last week, but city officials have refused to provide any details of their strategies.

But the business coalition's bill would neither reform the law's terms nor attack alleged abuses of the law's criminal provisions.

It has since been amended several times and is now supplemented by other criminal provisions.

Meanwhile, loud outcries are also heard against the law's criminal provisions.

We are looking at the harmonisation of criminal provisions.

The Court judgment has made it possible to clarify the powers in relation to criminal provisions between the first and the third pillar.