Paragraph 2: Award procedure and conditions

The granting of aid is the subject of two decisions:1° A provisional decision accepting the principle of granting aid. In order to obtain this decision, the application must be submitted by the delegated production company within a timeframe that allows the relevant selective production aid committee to formulate its opinion before the cinematographic work is released for screening;2° A final allocation decision after the amount of aid has been determined.

The provisional decision is taken after consultation with the relevant Selective Production Grants Committee.

The final award decision is taken after setting the amount of aid, determined after the opinion of the costing committee mentioned in Article 211-151.

The amount of aid is set at a maximum of €100,000. This amount is increased to a maximum of €152,000 for a first or second film.

The aid is granted in the form of an advance.The aid is the subject of an agreement concluded with the production company.The agreement cannot be executed until the cinema exhibition licence has been issued.

The aid is reimbursed from the sums calculated in accordance with articles 211-24 to 211-35, after application of an excess set at €50,000. Repayment is made up to the expiry of the periods stipulated in the aforementioned articles, in a proportion that may not be less than 25% of the sums calculated and up to a limit of 80% of the advance granted. The part of the advance that is…

Where the production company does not provide proof that all the financial possibilities available to it to ensure the normal repayment of the aid have been implemented, the repayment may, without prejudice to the dispositions de l’article D. 312-1 du code du cinéma et de l’image animée, être effectué sur les sommes calculées au titre des autres œuvres cinématographiques produites par cette entreprise.