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Article 311-31 of the French Cinema and Moving Image Code

For a series, inclusion on the list of reference works may be made, on a provisional basis, for episodes that have been broadcast or made available to the public during the previous year on a television service or on-demand audiovisual media service, whose publisher meets the conditions laid down in 1° or 2° of Article 311-8 and has contributed to the initial contribution mentioned in the same article, which was…

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Article 311-32 of the French Cinema and Moving Image Code

An audiovisual work may be included on the list of reference works until 15 January of the year following that in which the work was first broadcast on a television service or made available to the public on an on-demand audiovisual media service whose publisher meets the conditions laid down in 1° or 2° of Article 311-8 and has contributed to the initial contribution referred to in the same article,…

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Article 311-33 of the French Cinema and Moving Image Code

The application for registration must state the title, genre and duration of the work in question.It must be accompanied by:1° Either a broadcast certificate or a certificate of availability to the public, issued by the publisher of the service(s) concerned and stating the date of broadcast or availability to the public, the time of broadcast and the duration of the audiovisual work;2° Or a duly completed and certified acceptance by…

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Article 311-34 of the French Cinema and Moving Image Code

In the event of a dispute or difficulty of interpretation as to whether an audiovisual work belongs to a given genre for inclusion on the list of reference works, the President of the Centre national du cinéma et de l’image animée may consult the specialist committee responsible for awarding selective grants.

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Article 311-35 of the French Cinema and Moving Image Code

The sums representing the automatic financial aid to which production companies are entitled are calculated on the basis of the value of the minute produced, known as the “minute point”, defined as the ratio existing between, on the one hand, the amount of credits allocated to automatic aid, excluding advances, and, on the other hand, the weighted duration of the works included on the list of reference works.

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Article 311-36 of the French Cinema and Moving Image Code

The weighted duration is set for each genre of audiovisual work. It may give rise, depending on the case, to bonuses or increases depending in particular on the conditions under which the works were made, their intended purpose and their broadcasting conditions, in accordance with the conditions laid down in Articles 311-43 to 311-49.

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Article 311-38 of the French Cinema and Moving Image Code

When two works are made simultaneously from common artistic and technical elements, one intended for first showing in cinemas, the other, longer, intended for first showing on a television service or for making available to the public on an on-demand audiovisual media service, only the difference in duration between these two works is taken into account for the calculation.

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Article 311-40 of the French Cinema and Moving Image Code

The weighted duration of audiovisual works belonging to the genres of fiction, animation and audiovisual adaptation of live performances is equal to the product of the duration of the work and a coefficient set according to the amount of French hourly expenditure.For the duration of audiovisual works belonging to the genres of fiction and animation made up in the form of series, the duration taken into account for each episode…

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