Paragraph 4: Additional compensation measures

Additional exceptional aid is being granted in the form of a direct allowance to cinema owners to help compensate for the drop in business they have been experiencing since March 2020 as a result of the measures restricting and banning admission to cinemas.

The aid is granted for each cinema whose operators are eligible for financial aid for the creation and modernisation of cinemas.

To be eligible for aid, exhibitors must have organised at least one screening with paid admissions during 2020 in each cinema for which aid is requested.For cinemas created in 2020 and whose opening to the public has been prevented due to the measures restricting and prohibiting admission to the public, this condition is considered to have been met when the exhibitors provide proof that at least one screening with paid…

For the application of this paragraph:1° An establishment’s market share is defined as the ratio between the average sales achieved by this cinematographic entertainment establishment over a given period and the sum of the average sales achieved by all the establishments;2° Sales are defined as the proceeds from the sale of admissions or, in the case of a cinema access package giving entitlement to multiple admissions, of the sums corresponding…

For each establishment, the amount of the direct allocation is determined by applying the percentage corresponding to the establishment’s market share to the amount of funds allocated to direct allocations.

The amount of aid may not exceed that of the actual loss of turnover recorded over the period between 1 January and 31 March 2021 in relation to the average turnover achieved between 1 January and 31 March of the years 2017, 2018 and 2019, less the amounts of subsidies intended to compensate for the loss of turnover suffered during the months of January to March 2021 under Decree no….

To obtain the aid, cinema operators must complete and submit electronically, by 31 October 2021 at the latest, a form drawn up by the Centre national du cinéma et de l’image animée.

The decision of the President of the Centre national du cinéma et de l’image animée specifies the amount of aid awarded and the terms of payment.

The granting of the exceptional aid is subject to the provisions of exempted framework scheme No SA.42681, relating to aid for culture and heritage conservation for the period 2014-2023, adopted on the basis of Commission Regulation No 651/2014 of 17 June 2014 declaring certain categories of aid compatible with the internal market in application of Articles 107 and 108 of the Treaty.