Paragraph 6: Appeals against decisions by the Audiovisual and Digital Communications Regulatory Authority

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…

Where the appeal is likely to affect the rights or obligations of other persons who were parties to the proceedings before the Autorité de régulation de la communication audiovisuelle et numérique, such persons may join the proceedings before the court of appeal by means of a written, reasoned statement lodged at the registry under the conditions provided for in Article R. 331-46 within one month of receipt of the registered…

The First President of the Court of Appeal or his delegate shall set the time limits within which the parties to the proceedings must communicate their written observations to each other and file a copy thereof with the court registry. He shall also set the date for the hearing. The court registry notifies the parties of these time limits and summonses them to the hearing by registered letter with acknowledgement…

Notifications between parties shall be made by registered letter with acknowledgement of receipt or by direct notification between the parties’ lawyers. Procedural documents must be filed with the court registry in triplicate.

Before the Court of Appeal or its First President, the parties are represented and assisted in accordance with the conditions set out in Article 931 of the Code of Civil Procedure.

The decisions of the Paris Court of Appeal or its first president are notified by registered letter with acknowledgement of receipt by the court registry to the parties to the proceedings. They are brought to the attention of the president of the Autorité de régulation de la communication audiovisuelle et numérique, the minister in charge of culture and, with regard to disputes concerning the interoperability of technical measures, to the…