When sums have been entered in the automatic audiovisual production account for reference works belonging to the fiction genre, this company must incur, during the year of notification, expenditure corresponding to writing work on projects for works belonging to the fiction genre for an amount equivalent to 10% of these sums.
Expenditure corresponding to writing work is as follows:
1° Remuneration paid to authors under option or rights assignment contracts, including in respect of their participation in writing workshops, as well as the related social security charges and, where applicable, agents’ commissions;
2° Remuneration paid to series editors, as well as the related social security charges and, where applicable, agents’ commissions;
3° Expenditure relating to the use of consultants.
When these expenses are incurred by the production company in the absence of a writing or development agreement with a television service publisher, they are valued by a multiplying factor of 1.5.