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Article R333-3 of the French Sports Code

The rights referred to in the first paragraph of Article R. 333-2 are marketed by the league or the commercial company referred to inArticle L. 333-2-1 in accordance with a public and non-discriminatory call for tenders procedure open to all interested publishers or distributors of services. The notice of call for tenders contains information about the content and expiry date of current contracts for other audiovisual exploitation rights. It also…

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Article R333-3-1 of the French Sports Code

I.-When sports associations and sports companies take part in sports events or competitions for which the marketing and management of the exploitation rights are assigned to the commercial company mentioned in articles L. 333-1 and L. 333-2-1, the following may not hold an interest in the capital of this company or voting rights within it: 1° Sports associations and the sports companies they have formed in application of article L….

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Article R333-3-2 of the French Sports Code

The Articles of Association of the commercial company referred to in articles L. 333-1 and L. 333-2-1 which fail to comply with the laws and regulations in force or which do not ensure compliance with the provisions of article R. 333-3-1 may not be approved by the Minister responsible for Sport.

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Article R333-3-3 of the French Sports Code

Where the marketing of exploitation rights for sporting events or competitions organised by a professional league is carried out by a commercial company created pursuant to the third paragraph of Article L. 333-1, each year this company draws up a report on compliance with competition rules, in particular advertising and non-discrimination rules, when granting exclusive rights and, in particular, on the reasonableness, in view of the characteristics of the market,…

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Article R333-4 of the French Sports Code

Short extracts of a sporting event or competition broadcast pursuant to Article L. 333-7 are taken from the images of the holder of the exploitation right established in France by any television service publisher, for broadcast on its on-air or on-demand audiovisual media services which make the same programme available on a deferred basis: a) if this publisher is established in France; or b) If it is established in another…

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Article R333-5 of the French Sports Code

For the application of the provisions of the first paragraph of article L. 333-1-4, the organisers, referred to in article L. 331-5, of sporting events or competitions that may be used as a basis for betting may implement automated processing of personal data relating to the participants in these events or competitions. The purpose of this processing is to monitor the prohibition provided for in the first paragraph of article…

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Article R333-6 of the French Sports Code

The processing authorised by article R. 333-5 may concern categories of personal data relating to: 1° the identity of the person subject to the prohibition provided for in the first paragraph of article L. 333-1-4 (surname, given name, date and place of birth) ; 2° Their address (postal address and, where applicable, e-mail address); 3° Events or competitions for which they are banned from betting. The rights of access and…

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Article R333-6-1 of the French Sports Code

I. – For the application of the provisions of the first paragraph of Article L. 333-1-4, La Française des Jeux implements automated processing of personal data relating to bettors and bets placed on sports bets that it organises on the basis of these rights. The purpose of this processing is to monitor the betting ban requested by a sports event organiser pursuant to Article L. 333-1-4. The right to object…

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Article R333-7 of the French Sports Code

Pursuant to the provisions of IV of article 31 of the aforementioned Act of 6 January 1978, the organiser of a sporting event or competition responsible for the data processing defined in article R. 333-5 must send the Commission Nationale de l’Informatique et des Libertés, prior to its implementation, an undertaking that it complies with the description in articles R. 333-5 and R. 333-6.

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Article R333-8 of the French Sports Code

The organiser of the sporting event or competition must authorise one or more of his agents or representatives with the appropriate technical and legal skills to: 1° Process the data contained in the database referred to in article R. 333-5 ; 2° Transmit to the Autorité Nationale des Jeux and to La Française des Jeux the requests for reconciliation referred to in I and II of Article R. 333-11; 3°…

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