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Title I: Aid from the Centre national du cinéma et de l'image animée (French National Centre for Cinema and the Moving Image)

Article L311-2 of the French Cinema and Moving Image Code

Proceeds from the tax on ticket prices for screenings organised in cinematographic establishments mentioned in article L. 115-1, collected on the occasion of the showing of cinematographic or audiovisual works or documents of a pornographic nature or inciting to violence, are not taken into account when calculating entitlement to automatic aid. The aforementioned works and documents and the cinemas where they are shown are not eligible for any selective aid….

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Article L311-3 of the French Cinema and Moving Image Code

The Centre national du cinéma et de l’image animée shall ensure, particularly with regard to employment in the production sector, that beneficiaries of financial aid comply with their social obligations. To this end, the Centre national du cinéma et de l’image animée may request from applicants for financial aid any document proving compliance with these obligations.

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Article L311-5 of the French Cinema and Moving Image Code

The allocation of financial aid from the Centre national du cinéma et de l’image animée is subject to the inclusion in the contracts concluded with the authors of cinematographic and audiovisual works submitted in support of an application for aid of standard clauses ensuring respect for the moral rights granted to authors by articles L. 121-1 and L. 121-5 of the Intellectual Property Code and the principles set out in…

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Article L312-1 of the French Cinema and Moving Image Code

The sums to which production companies are entitled as automatic aid for the production of long-term cinematographic works are non-transferable and non-seizable. These sums may only be allocated for the production of a new cinematographic work subject to payment of the preferential claims referred to in article L. 312-2 arising from the production of previous feature-length cinematographic works.

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Article L312-2 of the French Cinema and Moving Image Code

The sums referred to in article L. 312-1 to which production companies may be entitled as a result of the exhibition of a given long-term cinematographic work are allocated by priority, according to the order of preference below and within the conditions and limits set by decree, to the payment of outstanding debts relating to this work, listed under the following production items: 1° All sums recovered by the State…

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Article L312-3 of the French Cinema and Moving Image Code

Preferential creditors may exercise their right directly with the Centre national du cinéma et de l’image animée. However, this action must be taken no later than eight months after the issue of the cinematographic licence for the work that gave rise to the claim. Once this period has elapsed, the Centre national du cinéma et de l’image animée will draw up a list of preferential claims and, in the absence…

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Article L312-4 of the French Cinema and Moving Image Code

The rights of preferential creditors remain and may be exercised freely when the production company is the subject of one of the procedures provided for in Book VI of the Commercial Code, without the exercise of these rights being subject to the declaration of claim provided for in Article L. 622-24 of the Commercial Code. In this case, however, the Centre national du cinéma et de l’image animée sends the…

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