800 000 euro fine, half suspended. The Paris court gave judgment against Uber France, after the suspension of UberPop service in July 2015 and its ban by the Constitutional Council in September. Uber has announced its intention to appeal.
UberPop allowed individuals to be drivers
UberPop application allowed individuals to become occasional drivers. Uber France had continued, among others, for “illegally organizing a customer matchmaking system with persons engaged in road transport of persons for remuneration” without a transport company, a taxi or a vehicle tourism with driver (VTC), offense under Thévenoud Act of 1 October 2014. It incur up to 1.5 million fine.
Among the plaintiffs lawyers taxi union, Jean-Paul Levy denounced at the trial in February a ‘predatory economic model “, which thrives on” ruin taxis “. For the CGT-Taxis, Luc Brossolet Uber had described as “a system that does everything to escape the law,” a “eel” that engages in a “wild competition”.
As for the leaders of Uber, “all have in common the refusal of the assistantship”, said one of the defense lawyers, Hugues Calvet. Stressing that Thévenoud law had suffered “three cancellations” of some of its actions by the Constitutional Council.
fine sentences for two executives
Two officials, the director of Uber for Western Europe at the material time, Pierre-Dimitri Gore-Coty, and the CEO of Uber France Thibaud Simphal, were sentenced to 30 000 and 20 000 euros fine, half suspended. A disqualification was also required against them.
UberPop had already earned Uber being sentenced to 150 000 euros fine for misleading commercial practice in December.
According to a spokesman Uber France contacted the Express, “the decision has no impact on the activity of Uber in France” and “the debate on transportation demand between individuals continue “. The company believes that the guidelines for the digital economy that has published the European Commission are in favor of developing this type of service.
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