French Cinema and Moving Image Code

The investment for the preparation of the sums entered in the automatic audiovisual production account is subject to the issue of a payment authorisation.

The production company has a period of three years from notification of authorisation for payment to obtain prior authorisation.Failing this, the Chairman of the Centre national du cinéma et de l’image animée may decide, depending on the progress of the project and the proof of expenditure provided by the production company, either to request repayment of the aid already paid or to waive repayment of all or part of it.In…

Only the following expenditure directly allocated to the preparation of the work, excluding the production company’s own operating expenditure, is eligible for investment of the sums entered in the audiovisual production account:1° Remuneration paid to authors, including, where applicable, the authors of the original work;2° Expenditure on the acquisition of literary and artistic rights, including, where applicable, the purchase of rights to archive images;3° Salaries and remuneration of personnel collaborating…

Preparation grants are allocated up to a maximum of 40% of the sums available at the beginning of the current year in the automatic audiovisual production account.

For a single audiovisual work, the amount of the sums invested may not exceed 40% of the amount of the preparation expenses and may not exceed €100,000. For audiovisual works belonging to the fiction genre, the 40% limit is raised to 60% when the sums are invested in the absence of a writing or development agreement with a television service publisher. For audiovisual works belonging to the animation genre that…