Subsection 2: Advisory procedure

Where the present general regulations so provide, decisions to award financial assistance are taken by the Chairman of the Centre national du cinéma et de l’image animée after obtaining the opinion of consultative committees set up within the institution pursuant to article R. 112-4 (5°) of the Code du cinéma et de l’image animée.The commissions make their decisions, where appropriate, after consulting reading committees or individual readers.

Prior consultation with reading committees or readers is carried out in one of the following ways:1° Only projects that have received a favourable opinion from reading committees or readers are submitted to the commission for an opinion. If the reading committees or readers give an unfavourable opinion, the President of the Centre national du cinéma et de l’image animée will decide on the application on the basis of this opinion…

Even when the opinion of an advisory committee is required, the Chairman of the Centre National du Cinéma et de l’Image Animée may also consult, if he considers it useful, any person whose opinion he feels would help him in his decision.