By decision of the Chairman of the Centre national du cinéma et de l’image animée, the sums entered in an automatic account may be carried over to another automatic account exclusively in the event of a complete takeover of the activity concerned by the holder of this other account.
As regards automatic financial aid for the production of audiovisual works and automatic financial aid for the promotion of cinematographic works abroad, the carry-over may relate to part of the sums entered in the automatic account in the event of a complete takeover of an autonomous branch of activity.
The assessment of the Chairman of the Centre national du cinéma et de l’image animée is based on the reality and completeness of the takeover of the business in the light, in particular, of the articles of association of the company taking over the business and the contractual documents between this company and the account holder stating the nature and conditions of the operation and mentioning all the items taken over attached to the business.
Where the company holding the automatic account is the subject of one of the procedures provided for in Book VI of the French Commercial Code, the Chairman of the Centre national du cinéma et de l’image animée will also take a decision in the light of the court decisions made in the context of these procedures.
The provisions of this article also apply where the beneficiary of the complete takeover of an activity or the complete takeover of an autonomous branch of activity is not yet the holder of an automatic account. In this case, an automatic account will be opened in the beneficiary’s name to which the corresponding sums will be transferred.