Chapter II: Commercial events.

The application for registration of an exhibition centre is sent electronically by its operator to the prefect of the département in which its facilities are located. If the exhibition centre and its outbuildings extend over several départements, registration is made with the département where the main access to the exhibition centre is located. An application is made for each park that constitutes an enclosed complex without direct and private access…

If the registration application file is complete, the prefect will send the exhibition centre operator, by electronic means, a registration receipt for each centre within one month of receipt of the file. If the application is incomplete, the Prefect will notify the interested party of the list of missing documents within fifteen days of receipt. If the missing additional elements are not produced, the registration application cannot be issued with…

Any change in the information contained in the initial application for registration of an exhibition centre is subject to an amending declaration to the prefect under the same conditions as the initial procedure.

The trade events that must be declared as part of the annual programme by an exhibition park are: 1° Trade shows as defined by article L. 762-2 ; 2° Commercial events, usually referred to as “trade fairs”, open to the public and in which a group of natural or legal persons belonging to a professional branch or a group of professional branches collectively and temporarily exhibit goods or offer services…

The operator of a registered exhibition centre shall send, for each calendar year, the declaration of the annual programme of commercial events as defined in article R. 762-4 held in its park, to the prefect of the département in which the park is located, before 1st October of the year preceding the commercial events included in this programme. The park operator declares the main characteristics of each commercial event, which…

If the annual programme declaration file is complete, the prefect will send the exhibition centre operator a declaration receipt by electronic means within one month of receiving the file. If the application is incomplete, the Prefect will notify the interested party of the list of missing information within fifteen days of receiving the application. If the missing additional information is not provided, a declaration receipt can only be issued for…

Any change to the annual programme or to the main characteristics of the events included therein shall be the subject of an immediate amending declaration to the prefect under conditions identical to the initial procedure for declaring the annual programme.

The first annual programme declaration may be made at the same time as the application for exhibition park registration.

If the full declaration is not filed within the time limits set out in article R. 762-5, commercial events held in the park are subject, depending on the case, to the declaration system provided for in articles R. 762-10 to R. 762-12, or to the applications for authorisation provided for in I of Article L. 310-2. In this case, the exhibition centre operator shall inform the organisers electronically before 1…

The organiser of a trade show as defined in article L. 762-2 that is not held in a registered exhibition centre must submit a prior electronic declaration to the prefect of the département in which the event is to be held at least two months before the start of the event. The declarant must provide the main characteristics of the event. The list of these characteristics is defined by an…