French Cinema and Moving Image Code

The Centre national du cinéma et de l’image animée, known as the CNC, is a public administrative body under the supervision of the Minister for Culture. In the fields of cinema and other moving image arts and industries, in particular those of audiovisual, video and multimedia, including video games, it carries out the missions set out in Article L. 111-2. The Chairman of the Centre national du cinéma et de…

The mission of the Centre national du cinéma et de l’image animée is : 1° To observe developments in the professions and activities of the cinema and other arts and industries of the moving image, their technical, legal, economic and social environment as well as the conditions of training and access to the professions concerned. To this end : a) It gathers all useful information, in particular commercial and financial…

The Chairman of the Centre National du Cinéma et de l’Image Animée has the following prerogatives on behalf of the State: 1° He studies and participates in the drafting of legislative and regulatory texts relating to the cinema and other moving image arts and industries; 2° It lays down, where these so provide, the regulatory terms and conditions for the application of texts relating to the cinema and other arts…