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 second paragraph of Article R. 331-44.
As soon as the appeal has been registered, the registry of the Court of Appeal will notify a copy of the statement referred to in Article R. 331-46 and the exhibits attached thereto to the chairman of the authority, as well as to the minister responsible for culture and, with regard to disputes concerning the interoperability of technological measures, to the minister responsible for industrial property.
The chairman of the authority sends the court registry the case file, which includes the report, the pleadings and exhibits sent by the parties and all the documents added to the file during the investigation.