#2026-1207 QPCConstitutional review of French rules limiting bank fees on inheritance accounts
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This decision reviews France’s 2025 rule that stops banks from charging certain fees when handling deposit accounts, passbook accounts, and some savings products after a customer dies. The rule matters for banks, heirs, and estate handlers because it limits when banks can bill for routine inheritance-related account operations. The excerpt shows the Constitutional Council examining whether those limits respect constitutional rights, but it does not include the final ruling.
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Key Changes
- Constitutional review opened on the rule limiting bank fees for inheritance-related account operations
- Banks may be barred from charging fees in specified simple succession cases involving deposit, passbook, and certain savings accounts
- The provided text does not show whether the Constitutional Council upheld or struck down the rule
Obligations
What this law requires
The challenged French measure, Article L. 312-1-4-1 of the Monetary and Financial Code as amended by Law No. 2025-415, concerns a rule barring fees for succession-related operations on a deceased person's deposit accounts, passbook accounts, and certain tax-specific general savings products.