Think Football / French Evin Law: "A need for consistency and legal certainty" (F. Honorat, lawyer)

"France cultivates the paradox of being one of the world's leading producers and exporters of alcoholic beverages, and then also of having adopted one of the most restrictive laws in terms of advertising and promotion for alcohol. The Evin Law, voted into force in 1991, does not allow a club to simply put an alcohol brand on its shirt without any other message, but authorizes any advertisement for alcohol in a full page in L'Équipe (French sports daily)", stated Fabien Honorat, associate lawyer at Péchenard & Associés, To News Tank Football on 31/01/2020.

Fabien Honorat will discuss the application of the Evin Law in the world of French sport with Didier Poulmaire, president of Poulmaire Avocat & Fiduciaire, on the occasion of the fourth edition of Think Football, organized by News Tank Football, at the Eiffel Campus of our partner INSEEC U. Sport (Paris, FRA), this Wednesday 05/02/2020. The exchange will be moderated by Morgane Duval, legal director of the French Premiere Ligue, one of the two unions of the presidents of French professional football clubs.

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