Section 2: Automatic financial aid

Investment for production of sums entered in the automatic audiovisual production account is subject to the issue of a prior authorisation and a final authorisation. The prior authorisation is issued before the work is completed. It sets out the terms and conditions for payment of the sums invested. The final authorisation is issued once the work has been completed. This authorisation constitutes the decision to definitively allocate the sums invested….

The production company has a period of three years from the date of issue of the prior authorisation to obtain final authorisation.If this period is not respected, the production company is obliged to repay the aid it has received to the Centre national du cinéma et de l’image animée. However, at the reasoned request of the production company, the President of the Centre national du cinéma et de l’image animée…

For prior authorisation, the application must be submitted at least one month before the end of the shooting or, for works in the animation genre, at least one month before the end of the production of the animationFor works composed entirely of pre-existing images, the application must be submitted at least one month before the start of editing.

For final authorisation, the application must be submitted no later than four months after completion of the work.

The date of completion of the work is that shown on the certificate of acceptance of the work by the publisher or publishers of television services responsible for broadcasting it or by the publisher or publishers of on-demand audiovisual media services responsible for making it available to the public, meeting the conditions laid down in 1° or 2° of Article 311-8 and who have contributed to the initial contribution mentioned…