The distribution company guarantees a financial investment taking the form of:
1° In the case mentioned in article 222-7, by the payment to production companies of advances exclusively repayable from the receipts of the work in question;
2° In the case mentioned in Article 222-8, by paying, on behalf of production companies, all or part of the following other distribution expenses: b) Where applicable, for foreign cinematographic works, expenditure on the creation of digital files including the cinematographic work, trailers, dubbing and subtitling;
c) Expenditure relating to the generation of digital file decryption keys;
d) Contributions to the digital equipment of cinemas;
e) Expenditure relating to the printing of copies on photochemical media, as well as expenditure relating to the transport and storage of these copies;
f) Expenditure relating to the design and production of trailers;
g) Expenditure relating to dubbing and subtitling;
h) Expenditure relating to the purchase of advertising space, whatever the means of communication used;
i) Expenditure relating to the design, production and distribution of advertising material, whatever the form and means of communication used;
j) Expenditure relating to press operations;
k) Expenditure relating to the organisation of events or participation in demonstrations;
l) Expenditure relating to the procedures for registration with the public film and audiovisual register and the issue of a film exhibition visa.
These expenses must be incurred before the first commercial showing in cinemas and must be exclusively reimbursable by the production company to the distribution company from the receipts of the work concerned.