Subject to payment, under the conditions provided for in article D. 312-1 of the Code du cinéma et de l’image animée, preferential claims listed in article L. 312-2 of the same code, production companies have the option of investing the sums entered in their automatic cinema production account for the production and preparation of feature-length cinematographic works.
Subject to the same reservations, the sums held in this automatic account may also be invested in the production or co-production of, or participation in the financing of the production of, short-length cinematographic works under the conditions set out in sub-section 1 of section 2 of chapter I of title I of book IV.