The following are eligible for the benefits of this chapter:
a) Creators who are nationals of a State party to the Agreement establishing the World Trade Organisation or who have in such a State either their habitual residence or a real and effective industrial or commercial establishment, as well as their successors in title ;
b) Persons meeting the above conditions of nationality, residence or establishment, who proceed in a Member State or in another State party, for the first time in the world, to the commercial exploitation of a topography not yet protected by this chapter and for which they have obtained from the authorised person an exclusive authorisation for the whole of the European Economic Community or the European Economic Area.
Persons, other than those referred to in the preceding paragraph, are admitted to the benefit of this chapter subject to a finding of reciprocity with the countries of which they are nationals or in which they are established.