Title II: GENERAL RULES RELATING TO FINANCIAL AID

For the allocation of automatic financial aid for the creation and modernisation of cinemas, the automatic cinema exhibition account is opened for each cinema in the name of the owner of the business or, in the absence of a business, in the name of the owner of the premises housing the cinema.When the owner does not operate the cinema himself, he may delegate to the operator the right to invest…

Automatic accounts opened in respect of several cinemas in the name of the same account holder may, at the latter’s request, be grouped into circuits.When, at the request of the holder of the accounts concerned, a cinema is transferred from one circuit to another, this transfer takes effect on 1 January of the calendar year following the date of the request and the sums calculated on 31 December of the…

Automatic accounts opened for several cinematographic establishments in the name of different account holders but constituting a community of economic interests between them may also be grouped together in a circuit.

The transfer by the holder of an automatic cinema exhibition account of the sums entered in this account to the holder of another automatic cinema exhibition account is only authorised in the event of definitive cessation of activity.However, exemptions may be granted by the President of the Centre national du cinéma et de l’image animée after consultation with the Commission des aides sélectives à l’exploitation, when the sums whose transfer…