Article L622-2
The following shall be eligible for the benefits of this Chapter :
(a) creators who are nationals of a State party to the Agreement Establishing the World Trade Organization or who have either their habitual residence or a real and effective industrial or commercial establishment in such country, and their successors in title ;
(b) persons meeting the aforesaid conditions of nationality, residence or establishment, who in a Member State engage in the first commercial exploitation anywhere in the world of a topography not protected by this Chapter, for which explitation they have received exclusive authorization from the entitled person for the whole of the European Community or the European Economic Area.
Persons other than those referred to in the foregoing paragraph shall be eligible for the benefits of this Chapter subject to evidence of reciprocity with the countries of which they are nationals or in which they are established.
Cabinet Chaillot