Subsection 3: Conditions relating to aid intensity

The total amount of aid for the promotion of cinematographic works abroad may not exceed 50% of the expenditure incurred by the foreign sales company.

Exceptions to the 50% threshold may be granted by the President of the Centre national du cinéma et de l’image animée, up to a limit of 60% and upon a reasoned request from the foreign sales company, for difficult or low-budget cinematographic works.A difficult work is a director’s first or second work. A low-budget work is one whose final production cost is less than or equal to €1,250,000.