Section 3: Combating the illegal broadcasting of sporting events and competitions

I.-Where serious and repeated infringements of the audiovisual exploitation right provided for in Article L. 333-1 of this Code, of the neighbouring right of an audiovisual communication undertaking provided for in Article L. 216-1 of the Intellectual Property Code, insofar as the programme concerned consists of a sporting event or competition, or to a right acquired on an exclusive basis by contract or agreement for the audiovisual exploitation of a…

The authorised and sworn agents of the Autorité de Régulation de la Communication Audiovisuelle et Numérique (Audiovisual and Digital Communications Regulatory Authority) may record acts likely to constitute infringements of the rights referred to in Article L. 333-10. Within this framework, these agents may, without being held criminally liable: 1° Participate, under a pseudonym, in electronic exchanges likely to relate to infringements of the rights referred to in the same…