Direct allocations are reserved for distribution companies that:
1° Have distributed, in the twenty-four months preceding the application, at least three feature-length cinematographic works, each of which was shown in at least five cinematographic establishments at the time of its national theatrical release. Cinematographic works distributed by several companies are not taken into account;
2° Do not have any direct or indirect capital link with a television service publisher, an operator running an electronic communications network open to the public or providing an electronic communications service to the public or a company established in a State other than a European State;
3° Hold a mandate for the distribution of the work concerned entered in the public film and audiovisual register.