Book III: General provisions

The decisions of the Autorité de régulation de la communication audiovisuelle et numérique mentioned in articles R. 331-36 to R. 331-38 and R. 331-41 are notified by registered letter with acknowledgement of receipt to the parties, who may, within a period of one month, lodge an appeal for annulment or reversal with the Paris Court of Appeal. The increases in time limits provided for in article 643 of the Code…

By way of derogation from the provisions of Title VI of Book II of the Code of Civil Procedure, appeals brought before the Paris Court of Appeal against decisions of the Autorité de régulation de la communication audiovisuelle et numérique shall be lodged, investigated and judged in accordance with the provisions of this sub-section. The authority shall not be a party to the proceedings.

The appeals provided for in Article R. 331-44 shall be lodged by a written statement in triplicate lodged against a receipt at the registry of the Paris Court of Appeal containing, on pain of nullity: 1° If the applicant is a natural person, his surname, forenames, profession and domicile; if the applicant is a legal person, its name, form, registered office and the body representing it; 2° The subject of…

Within five days of the filing of his statement, the author of the appeal must, on pain of the latter being declared null and void ex officio, send, by registered letter with acknowledgement of receipt, a copy thereof to the parties to whom the decision of the Autorité de Régulation de la Communication Audiovisuelle et Numérique has been notified, as appears from the letter of notification provided for in the…

A cross-appeal may be lodged even if its author is precluded from lodging a main appeal. However, in the latter case, the cross-appeal will not be admissible if it is lodged more than one month after receipt of the registered letter from the person lodging the main appeal, as provided for in the first paragraph of article R. 331-47, or if the main appeal is not itself admissible. The cross-appeal…