French Cinema and Moving Image Code

The computerised systems shall record all information relating to ticket receipts for the cinemas in which they are installed.Where a cinema operator is forced to use printed tickets in the event of a breakdown preventing the use of its computerised system, it shall reinstate as soon as possible in the computerised system all operations relating to the issue of admission rights carried out manually during the breakdown. In the meantime,…

Computer tickets and dematerialised admission rights may be created outside the ticket offices of the cinematographic establishments to which they give access, provided that they are registered, at the time of issue, in the computerised ticketing system of these establishments.Computer tickets are only edited and printed at the time they are given to the spectator.

Computer tickets and dematerialised admission rights are issued in “immediate entry” or “pre-sale” mode under the following conditions: 1° Immediate entry sales concern tickets issued in the period immediately preceding the screening. It is up to the cinema operator to define, for each screening, the moment at which the system switches to immediate entry sales, which must occur between one and a half hours before the start of the screening;…

Exhibitors of cinematographic establishments that accept multiple-admission cinema access packages identify each of these packages with a specific price category that they communicate to the Centre national du cinéma et de l’image animée.