--- slug: one-to-one-biarritz title: One to One Biarritz (Experience Client) fiche_model: llm-content-v1 last_verified: '2026-09-20' eventsindex_id: EI-04270 canonical_url: https://eventsindex.org/events/one-to-one-biarritz.html next_edition_year: 2026 date_start: '2026-10-06' date_end: '2026-10-08' city: Biarritz country: France organiser: Comexposium (One to One) organiser_url: https://www.1to1-experience-client.com/en b2b: true meta_description: 'One to One Biarritz: 6 to 8 October 2026, Le Bellevue. Comexposium''s invitation-based one to one meetings event for CX, marketing and retail leaders.' editorial_take: One to One Biarritz pairs pre-scheduled one-to-one meetings between vetted brand decision makers and paying solution-provider exhibitors, and its 2026 theme, brand visibility to AI agents that mediate customer choice, is unusually pointed for a French marketing trade event; every scale figure attached to it is organiser-supplied and unaudited. language: en schema_version: v6.0 venue: Le Bellevue (Biarritz's Palais des Congres) vector: sector: - customer-experience-retail --- # One to One Biarritz (Experience Client) > *One to One Biarritz (Experience Client) is Comexposium's invitation-based one-to-one meetings event for customer experience, marketing, data and retail decision makers, held each October in Biarritz; the 2026 edition, its twelfth, runs 6 to 8 October at Le Bellevue under the theme "NO BRANDS! Stupeur, tremblements et IA," pairing around 450 buyer-side decision makers with representatives of 116 exhibiting solution-provider companies for pre-scheduled meetings and about thirty conference sessions.* | DATES | VENUE | ORGANISER | ATTENDANCE | |---|---|---|---| | **6 to 8 October 2026** (Tuesday to Thursday) | **Le Bellevue, Biarritz** (Biarritz's Palais des Congres; the organiser's access page also names Casino Barriere Biarritz, linked by shuttle, for evening events) | **Comexposium, via its One to One events brand** | **About 900 participants across the three days (organiser figure)** | ## What is One to One Biarritz (Experience Client)? One to One Biarritz (Experience Client), branded for 2026 as "One to One IA x Experience Client," is a business-to-business event built around pre-scheduled, one-to-one meetings between brand-side decision makers and solution-provider companies working in customer experience, marketing, data and artificial intelligence. It was created in 2014 and is organised by Comexposium, the French exhibition group, through a dedicated "One to One" events brand that also runs a separate sister event, One to One Retail E-commerce, in Monaco (sources: Comexposium's own page on its "Comexposium One to One" division, and coverage naming 2014 as the launch year, checked 20 September 2026). Unlike a conventional trade-show floor, entry for the buyer side runs through an application ("Be Invited") that Comexposium screens against the delegate's role and project before granting a badge, while solution-provider companies pay to exhibit and are matched into meeting slots through the same platform; the organiser's own material describes 2026 as the event's twelfth edition. The 2026 edition's stated theme is "NO BRANDS! Stupeur, tremblements et IA," framed around how a brand keeps being chosen once AI agents and assistants sit between it and the customer. ## When and where does One to One Biarritz (Experience Client) take place in 2026? One to One Biarritz (Experience Client) 2026 runs from Tuesday 6 to Thursday 8 October 2026, three days, per the organiser's own event pages and consistent listings across trade and exhibitor sources checked 20 September 2026. The primary venue is Le Bellevue, a Belle Epoque building in central Biarritz facing the ocean that serves as the city's Palais des Congres, redesigned by architect Jean-Michel Wilmotte; this matches the seed database's venue field, "Palais des Congres." The organiser's own "how to come" (access) page also describes a complimentary shuttle linking Biarritz airport and train station to "the Bellevue - Casino," and several 2026 previews (an exhibitor's own event microsite, a retail-trade listing, an affiliate-marketing trade article) describe the venue simply as Casino Barriere Biarritz; a 2023 edition is documented as having used both the Palais des Congres (Le Bellevue) and the Casino de Biarritz together, so the two adjoining venues most likely continue to be used side by side for 2026, with Le Bellevue as the named primary site. ## Who organises One to One Biarritz (Experience Client)? One to One Biarritz (Experience Client) is organised by Comexposium, the French exhibition and events group, through a dedicated division it describes as "Comexposium One to One," which runs the "One to One" event brand across more than one French city. Sonia Mamin is named as Director of One to One Events in coverage of the 2025 edition's results. For buyer-side ("guest") enquiries the organiser's registration platform names invite@one-to-one-biarritz.com as the Guest Experience team's contact address. Separate commercial and administrative contact addresses are referenced on the event's registration platform for exhibitor and general questions, but the exact addresses were not captured in the material checked this session (Not publicly disclosed here for that reason). ## Who attends One to One Biarritz (Experience Client)? The organiser's own figures, repeated across several 2026 preview articles checked 20 September 2026, are about 450 marketing, customer-experience, digital and data decision makers from French and European brands and retailers (the buyer side, admitted only after an application review) meeting representatives of 116 exhibiting solution-provider companies; one summary puts total participants, including exhibitor staff, speakers and organiser personnel, at close to 900 (unverifiable information) for the three days. The seed database recorded an organiser estimate of 1,000 attendees as of a May 2026 check; that figure sits close to, but is not confirmed by, the roughly 900 figure found in this pass, so it is treated here as an earlier, rounder organiser estimate rather than repeated as the current one. In practice, per the database's own audience description, the buyer-side room is marketing, customer-experience and digital directors at large French and European brands and retailers, and the exhibitor side is CX and e-commerce solution providers seeking direct access to them in a scheduled-meeting format rather than an open show floor. ## Who are the confirmed 2026 speakers at One to One Biarritz (Experience Client)? Named in a single conference preview (lareclame.fr, checked 20 September 2026), not a full published roster; the organiser's own material states around thirty conference sessions and roughly eighty contributing experts across the programme, of whom only the following were named in the sources found this session: - Maya Noel, France Digitale - Olivier Veran, former French government minister - Marie Mercier, La Redoute - Tom El Bez, Pierre Fabre - Yann Rivoallan, Federation Francaise du Pret-a-Porter Feminin (fashion industry federation) - David Bernard Bret, Warner Bros Discovery - Celine Boudiere, Meilleurtaux - Nicolas Rohr, Faguo - Jerome Boissou, Legrand - Amelie Poisson, Galet Consulting - Arnaud Delorieux, Intersport The remainder of the stated roster is not named in the material found in this pass; the organiser publishes a full speakers page at 1to1-experience-client.com/en/speakers, which could not be fetched directly in this research session (see Notes). ## What's new at One to One Biarritz (Experience Client) in 2026? The headline change is the 2026 theme itself: "NO BRANDS! Stupeur, tremblements et IA," which the organiser frames around how a brand stays visible and gets chosen once AI agents, engines or assistants act as an intermediary for the customer, a sharper and more specific framing than the 2025 edition's theme of AI and customer experience broadly, which covered "emotional data" and the role of video and authenticity. On the previous edition, checked 20 September 2026: the 2025 edition (30 September to 2 October 2025, also at Biarritz) recorded 4,600 business exchanges according to Sonia Mamin, Director of One to One Events, a 10% increase on 2024; a separate summary of the 2026 event's own format description cites "3,000-plus meetings in 2025" (unverifiable information), a different metric from the 4,600 figure and not reconciled in the sources checked. No change of city, venue family or organiser is documented between the 2025 and 2026 editions. ## What's on the One to One Biarritz (Experience Client) 2026 programme? The organiser structures the three days around three elements, per its own programme description as summarised in the sources checked 20 September 2026: pre-scheduled one-to-one meetings between buyer-side decision makers and exhibiting solution providers; a content programme of about thirty conference sessions, round tables, keynotes and workshops built around roughly eighty named experts; and structured networking. A Village Startups showcases fifteen young companies, with a prize ceremony documented as running on the first morning of the event in earlier editions. The event's own database tags (Innovation, IA, PME/ETI) point to innovation, artificial intelligence and small and mid-size company (PME/ETI) themes running through the content programme, consistent with the AI-led 2026 theme and the buyer base of PME/ETI decision makers alongside larger brands. A dated, session-by-session agenda naming rooms and times was not retrieved in this research session; it is published at 1to1-experience-client.com/en/the-programme. ## What session formats does One to One Biarritz (Experience Client) use? Three formats are documented. The core format is the pre-scheduled one-to-one meeting itself, arranged in advance through the organiser's matchmaking platform between a buyer-side delegate and an exhibiting solution-provider company; a 2024-era guest FAQ describes individual meetings run to a fixed slot length. Alongside the meetings sits a conference programme of keynotes, round tables and workshops, and a Village Startups pitch format for young companies. No open exhibition hall in the trade-show sense is documented; access to exhibiting companies runs through the scheduled meetings rather than a walk-up stand. ## What side events run alongside One to One Biarritz (Experience Client)? Documented in the material checked 20 September 2026: the Village Startups, a showcase for up to fifteen young companies (never previously an exhibiting partner, under five years old) with a prize ceremony on the programme; and networking parties reached by the organiser's own shuttle service alongside the main venue. A "Grand Prix Strategies de l'Experience Client," co-branded with the marketing publication Strategies, is documented for the 2021 and 2022 editions as a joint award category; it was not confirmed as still running for 2026 in the sources checked, so it is not carried forward here as a 2026 side event. No separate satellite conference or hackathon distinct from the main programme was found. ## How much do One to One Biarritz (Experience Client) tickets cost? Not publicly disclosed as a set price on either side, in the material checked 20 September 2026. For the buyer side, access runs through the "Be Invited" application rather than a paid ticket: the organiser's refund-and-conditions page discusses reimbursement of a guest's travel costs under certain conditions rather than a registration fee, which points to no delegate fee for an approved buyer, though this is inferred from the application and reimbursement process rather than a price stated outright. For the exhibitor side, stand and meeting-package pricing was not found; exhibitor space for 2026 is reported as fully booked well ahead of the event. ## How to become a speaker at One to One Biarritz (Experience Client)? Not publicly disclosed for the main conference programme: no open call for speakers, application form or programme committee for keynote or round-table slots was found in the material checked 20 September 2026. The one documented, application-based route onto a stage is the Village Startups, open to companies under five years old that have never exhibited as a paying partner before; candidacies went through a form on the organiser's site with a 31 May deadline for the 2024 edition (the 2026 deadline was not confirmed in this pass), followed by a pitch and prize ceremony for the selected fifteen. ## How to become a sponsor or exhibitor at One to One Biarritz (Experience Client)? The organiser's site carries a "Become an exhibitor" ("Devenez exposant") path under its exhibitors section, with commercial enquiries directed to a contact address referenced on the registration platform; the exact address was not captured in the material checked this session (Not publicly disclosed here for that reason). No tier names, prices or application deadlines for exhibitor space were found. The organiser's own material states that exhibitor space for the 2026 edition has been fully booked for some months ahead of the show, which points to demand exceeding available stands rather than an open, always-on sign-up. ## Who sponsors One to One Biarritz (Experience Client) in 2026? A named, tiered sponsor or exhibitor list was not retrieved directly in this research session; the organiser publishes a downloadable confirmed-partners list at 1to1-experience-client.com/en/partners/confirmed-partners, which could not be fetched (see Notes). Two 2026 exhibitors are confirmed from their own event microsites, checked 20 September 2026: Criteo, an advertising-technology company, on stand F48, offering 121 pre-scheduled meetings; and TimeOne, a marketing and affiliate group, named in its own coverage of the 2026 show. These are documented exhibitors rather than a full sponsor roster, and 116 exhibiting solution-provider companies are reported in total (organiser figure); the other 114 were not individually named in the sources checked. ## What types of companies are majority represented at One to One Biarritz (Experience Client)? No independently audited breakdown by sector or company size is published. The database's own tags for this event (Innovation, IA, PME/ETI) and its audience description point to a buyer side of marketing, customer-experience and digital decision makers at large French and European brands and retailers, alongside small and mid-size companies (PME/ETI); named 2026 buyer-side speakers work at consumer and retail brands (La Redoute, Pierre Fabre, Intersport, Faguo), an industrial group (Legrand), a finance company (Meilleurtaux) and a media group (Warner Bros Discovery), which is consistent with that description. On the exhibitor side, the two 2026 exhibitors confirmed in this research, Criteo and TimeOne, are both advertising, adtech and affiliate-marketing companies, which points to a solution-provider base weighted toward marketing and customer-data technology vendors, though this is only two of the 116 exhibiting companies and is not asserted as representative of the full list. ## How do you get press accreditation for One to One Biarritz (Experience Client)? Not publicly disclosed. No dedicated press accreditation page, deadline or media-specific contact for One to One Biarritz (Experience Client) was found in the material checked 20 September 2026; the "Be Invited" guest application and the exhibitor route are the two documented ways onto the event, and neither is described as press-specific. The marketing-trade publication Strategies has covered the event across several editions and co-branded an award with it in 2021 and 2022, which suggests an existing relationship, but no organiser-declared media-partner list was found, and the database's own official_media_partners field is empty for this record, so no coverage found here is marked "(media partner)." ## What press coverage has One to One Biarritz (Experience Client) received? Coverage found for the 2024 to 2026 editions, checked 20 September 2026, comes mostly from French marketing-trade and regional business press: Maddyness (a 2025 edition recap quoting Sonia Mamin, Director of One to One Events, and a separate 2024 piece on the Village Startups launch), lareclame.fr (a 2026 preview of five conference sessions and an earlier 2025 piece on the AI theme), e-marketing.fr (a brief on data, AI and ethics on the programme), Strategies (recurring event coverage and reporting, plus the 2021 to 2022 Grand Prix co-branding), Presse Agence (regional business coverage), Digital Mag, blog.avanci.fr and mind.eu.com, a retail-trade publication that lists the 2026 edition in its events agenda. No national daily or broadcast coverage was found in the sources checked this session. ## How reliable is the reported press coverage of One to One Biarritz (Experience Client)? Mixed, and weighted toward marketing-trade and regional business press rather than general or investigative media. Maddyness, lareclame.fr, e-marketing.fr and mind.eu.com are independent trade outlets, but their previews largely restate organiser-supplied figures (the 450 and 116 attendee counts, the roughly 900 total, the 4,600 business exchanges) without an independent count of their own, which places this coverage closer to independent-but-promotional than to adversarial reporting. Strategies' relationship is closer still: it co-branded an award with the event in 2021 and 2022, though it is not confirmed as a declared media partner in the database or in the organiser's own current material. No press coverage found in this session questions or audits the organiser's attendance or exchange figures. ## Who should skip One to One Biarritz (Experience Client)? Solution-provider companies without budget for a paid exhibitor stand and a matchmaking-platform presence: the documented route for a vendor onto the buyer side's radar is the exhibitor package, not a speaking slot or a booth walk-up, and 2026 exhibitor space is reported fully booked well ahead of the show. Buyers who need an open trade-show floor to browse widely: the format is scheduled one-to-one meetings agreed in advance, not a walk-around exhibition, so a buyer who has not gone through the guest application and meeting-matching process will have a narrower experience than at a conventional trade show. Anyone seeking English-language, internationally staffed sessions: named 2026 speakers, exhibitors and press coverage found in this research are overwhelmingly French, and no interpretation service is documented (see the language entry below). Readers whose focus is pure retail and e-commerce rather than customer experience and marketing more broadly should note the separate, Monaco-based One to One Retail E-commerce edition covers that ground on different dates (see the other-editions entry below). ## Where does One to One Biarritz (Experience Client) sit in the Customer Experience and Retail calendar? One to One Biarritz (Experience Client) runs in early October, about three weeks after NRF Retail's Big Show Europe in Paris (15 to 17 September 2026, as tracked by EventsIndex in the same Customer Experience and Retail vertical), the largest single trade show in that calendar by exhibitor count. Where NRF Retail's Big Show Europe is an open trade-show floor combined with a paid conference, One to One Biarritz (Experience Client) is closed and matchmaking-led: attendance on the buyer side requires an accepted "Be Invited" application, and the exhibitor side is capped by available meeting slots rather than open stand sales. Its own sister event under the same Comexposium "One to One" brand, One to One Retail E-commerce in Monaco, sits in the same wider vertical but on a different date (March) and with a retail and e-commerce focus rather than Biarritz's broader customer-experience, marketing and data-AI remit; see the other-editions entry below. Other Customer Experience and Retail events tracked by EventsIndex, among them dmexco in Cologne and Tech for Retail in Paris, were not re-verified for their 2026 dates in this research pass and are not asserted here. ## Are there other One to One Biarritz (Experience Client) editions outside Biarritz? One to One Biarritz (Experience Client) itself has run only in Biarritz since its 2014 launch, per the sources checked 20 September 2026. Comexposium's wider "One to One" brand does run a separate event, One to One Retail E-commerce, at the Grimaldi Forum in Monaco each March; its 2026 edition ran 10 to 12 March 2026, and its next edition is dated 9 to 11 March 2027, with its own official site (1to1-retail-ecommerce.com) distinct from Biarritz's. This Monaco event covers retail and e-commerce specifically, rather than Biarritz's broader customer-experience, marketing and data-AI focus, has its own EventsIndex record, and is not documented in further detail in this fiche. ## What language is One to One Biarritz (Experience Client) conducted in? Not stated outright as a policy in the material checked 20 September 2026, but every signal found points to French as the working language of the meetings and conference programme: the organiser's own site defaults to a French (fr-FR) locale alongside an English version, every 2026 speaker named in the sources found this session works for a French company or French institution, and all press coverage located is French-language. No interpretation or translation service is mentioned anywhere in the material checked, and no session is advertised as English-language. ## Can you attend One to One Biarritz (Experience Client) remotely, or watch sessions afterward? No remote or livestream attendance option is documented for the one-to-one meetings themselves, which are by design in-person and pre-scheduled. For the conference content, the organiser's own site hosted a set of session replays from the 2024 edition ("Les Replays One to One Experience Client 2024"), and the event maintains a YouTube channel; whether the same replay treatment is planned for 2026 sessions was not confirmed in the material checked this session. ## What is One to One Biarritz (Experience Client)'s refund and cancellation policy? For guests (the buyer side), the organiser's published refund process states that reimbursement of travel costs is reserved for the end user and their own employees, explicitly excluding spouses, partners or other staff; it excludes parking, toll, mileage, taxi, bus and equivalent local-transport expenses; no reimbursement is made if the guest cancels; and any changes to flight bookings are at the guest's own expense. A guest may be eligible for partial reimbursement of travel costs under conditions set by the organiser's Guest Experience team, reachable at invite@one-to-one-biarritz.com. No separate refund or cancellation policy for paying exhibitors was found in the material checked. ## Is One to One Biarritz (Experience Client) accessible for attendees with disabilities? Not publicly disclosed. No accessibility statement specific to One to One Biarritz (Experience Client), covering step-free access, companion tickets or accommodation requests at Le Bellevue, was found in the material checked 20 September 2026. Biarritz's own tourism board publishes a general disability-access guide to the city, updated April 2026, but it does not name this event or Le Bellevue specifically, so it is not used here as an event-level answer. ## How do you get to Le Bellevue? Le Bellevue sits in central Biarritz, facing the ocean, and functions as the city's Palais des Congres. The organiser's own access page describes a complimentary shuttle service run during the three event days between Biarritz airport, Biarritz's train station and "the Bellevue - Casino," and further shuttles between event hotels, networking-party venues and the Bellevue and Casino Barriere site. A precise street address and public-transport detail beyond the organiser's shuttle service were not found in the material checked 20 September 2026. ## Why does One to One Biarritz (Experience Client) matter to a customer-experience or marketing decision maker? *Because the format itself, pre-scheduled one-to-one meetings rather than a walk-around trade-show floor, is built to guarantee that a vetted buyer meets vendors relevant to their project, not whoever happens to staff the nearest stand, and because the 2026 theme takes on a question that is becoming unavoidable for the sector: how a brand stays chosen once an AI agent or assistant sits between it and the customer. For a buyer-side decision maker already approved through the "Be Invited" process, the named 2026 speakers, drawn from brands such as La Redoute, Pierre Fabre and Intersport rather than from vendors, signal a programme built around peer practitioners talking about their own projects, not vendor pitches.* *The corollary is that this is a closed, curated room by design: an exhibitor's access to that buyer audience depends on a paid stand in a space reported fully booked well ahead of the show, and a would-be speaker outside the Village Startups path has no documented open route onto the stage.* ## Why should a reader treat One to One Biarritz (Experience Client)'s headline figures with care? *Because every scale figure attached to this event, the 450 buyer-side decision makers, the 116 exhibiting companies, the roughly 900 total participants, and the 4,600 business exchanges reported for 2025, comes from the organiser or from press that repeats the organiser's own numbers without an independent count. The seed database's own attendance estimate, 1,000 as of a May 2026 check, does not match the approximately 900 figure found in this pass, and the two counts of "meetings" for the 2025 edition (3,000-plus in one summary, 4,600 "business exchanges" attributed by name to the event's director in another) were not reconciled here. None of this means the event is smaller or less useful than advertised; it means no figure attached to it in this fiche should be read as audited.* ## Where can I find official information about One to One Biarritz (Experience Client)? Official site: 1to1-experience-client.com (French default at /fr-FR, English at /en). The event's exhibitor and badge-logistics portal runs on a separate subdomain, event.one-to-one-biarritz.com, and its guest and exhibitor registration platform is hosted at one-to-one-biarritz.myplatform-online.com. The programme is published at 1to1-experience-client.com/en/the-programme, speakers at 1to1-experience-client.com/en/speakers, and confirmed partners at 1to1-experience-client.com/en/partners/confirmed-partners. Guest Experience contact: invite@one-to-one-biarritz.com. The seed database's organiser_url, one-to-one-retail.fr, does not resolve to this event or to its Monaco sister event in any source found in this research (the Monaco event's own official site is 1to1-retail-ecommerce.com); it is treated as an incorrect legacy or unrelated domain and replaced here with the current, consistently cited official site. Social channels found: Facebook and X/Twitter under the handle "1to1Biarritz," and a YouTube channel. All checked 20 September 2026. --- **Last verified:** 2026-09-20 **Next review:** 2026-10-15 **Notes:** Creation, not a refonte: before this pass the database held only this event's name, sector, city, country, organiser website and a one-line French description, as the "creation, not a refonte" section of the writer's prompt anticipates; no prior content/fiches/ version exists. Critical seed check, as instructed: the seed's organiser_url, https://www.one-to-one-retail.fr/, was checked against every independent source found in this research and does not appear anywhere in connection with either this Biarritz "Experience Client" event or its Monaco sister event, One to One Retail E-commerce (EI-04271/EI-01532), whose own current official site is 1to1-retail-ecommerce.com; the seed domain is treated as wrong and is replaced here with www.1to1-experience-client.com/en, which is named consistently as the official site for the Biarritz edition across the organiser's own material (Comexposium), an exhibitor's own event microsite (Criteo), a retail-trade agenda listing (mind.eu.com) and multiple 2026 preview articles, all checked 20 September 2026. This correction should be made in events.db by the site owner; it was not made here. Database elements used: name, sector (customer-experience-retail), tags (Innovation, IA, PME/ETI, used in the programme and company-types entries), city, country, the French audience description (translated and used in the attends and company-types entries), and the seed venue value "Palais des Congres," which this research corroborates as Le Bellevue, Biarritz's Palais des Congres, rather than rejecting it. Database element knowingly set aside: the organiser_url (see above) and, partially, the attendees_est of 1,000 (an organiser figure as of a May 2026 database check), which this pass reports alongside, not in place of, the approximately 900 figure and the 450-plus-116 breakdown found in current 2026 sourcing, because the two did not reconcile and no single figure could be confirmed as current; both are stated with their source and the newer ones carry the unverifiable-information marker where a second independent source could not be found. The seed's own editorial_take (not carried into the published frontmatter, which is rewritten here per the writer's prompt) already named the Palais des Congres de Biarritz as the venue, which corroborates this research rather than being contradicted by it. Network limitation: WebFetch and direct fetches to any external domain are blocked in this environment for every domain, per the environment note provided with this task; this research relies entirely on WebSearch result summaries and the source URLs they cite, not on directly fetched and read pages, so the organiser's own site pages named throughout (speakers, programme, confirmed partners, refund process) were read only as search-result summaries, not verified verbatim. The WebSearch budget available in this session (200 calls) was exhausted before the following could be confirmed and are left as documented gaps above rather than guessed: a full 2026 speaker roster beyond the eleven names found; a full, tiered exhibitor and sponsor list beyond Criteo and TimeOne; exhibitor stand and meeting-package pricing; a press-accreditation process; an event-specific accessibility statement; a precise street address for Le Bellevue; whether the Grand Prix Strategies co-branding and 2024-era session replays continue for 2026; and the 2026 deadline for Village Startups applications (only the 2024 deadline, 31 May, was found). Where a figure existed but could not be cross-checked against a second independent source, it is marked (unverifiable information) rather than presented as settled, per SPEC-FICHE-V1.md section 8 bis.