Remuneration for library lending is distributed as follows:
1° A first share is divided equally between authors and their publishers on the basis of the number of copies of books purchased each year, for their libraries receiving the public for lending, by the legal entities mentioned in the third paragraph (2°) of article 3 of the aforementioned law no. 81-766 of 10 August 1981, determined on the basis of the information that these persons and their suppliers communicate to the body or bodies mentioned in article L. 133-2 ;
2° A second portion, which may not exceed half of the total, is allocated to the payment of a fraction of the contributions due in respect of supplementary retirement pensions by the persons referred to in the third and fourth paragraphs of Article L. 382-12 of the Social Security Code.