The producer, meaning the company that places a product on the French market for the first time: a manufacturer, an importer, a brand that has products made under its name or a distance seller established abroad, which must also appoint an authorised representative in France. A distributor that resells a product already declared by its supplier does not pay a second time, but must be able to give its customers the producer's unique identifier.
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