Chapter II: Ethics

The members of the committees are bound by an obligation of impartiality.They shall personally examine the matters submitted for their consideration and deliberate on them without regard to persons or factors external to these matters. They undertake to prevent or immediately put an end to any conflict of interest, within the meaning ofparagraph 1 of article 2 of Law no. 2013-907 of 11 October 2013 on the transparency of public…

If a committee member has been contacted by a person with a direct interest in the favourable outcome of a case submitted for his or her assessment, with the clear intention of influencing that assessment, he or she shall inform the committee secretariat without delay.

Committee members may not take part in the deliberations if they have a direct or indirect interest in the subject of those deliberations.If a committee member is in a conflict of interest situation with regard to a matter on the agenda of a committee meeting, he/she must withdraw from the meeting for the adoption of the resolution on that matter.

A member of a committee who has a conflict of interest in relation to a matter on the agenda of a committee meeting and who withdraws for the adoption of the resolution on that matter is prohibited, for the duration of his or her term of office, from any discussion relating to that resolution with the other members of the committee.

Committee members are subject to a duty of confidentiality, under which they must refrain from taking a public position that could undermine the serenity of the committees’ work or their ethical obligations, or that could call into question the opinions given and decisions taken.

Committee members are subject to an obligation of confidentiality, under which they may not divulge any fact, information or document of which they are aware as a result of their participation in the work of these committees.

Failure to comply with an ethical obligation defined in this chapter may be grounds for the Chairman of the Centre National du Cinéma et de l’Image Animée to declare that the member is permanently unable to perform his duties, after the person concerned has been informed and given the opportunity to present his observations.

When the committees decide after consulting reading committees or readers, the members of the reading committees or readers are subject to the obligations resulting from this chapter. These obligations also apply to persons heard pursuant to articles 122-6 and 133-7.