Appendix: GENERAL RULES FOR FINANCIAL AID FROM THE CENTRE NATIONAL DU CINÉMA ET DE L'IMAGE ANIMÉE

To be eligible for automatic and selective financial support, audiovisual works must be financed by an initial contribution from one or more television service or on-demand audiovisual media service publishers meeting the following conditions:1° With regard to television service publishers:a) Where the publisher is established in France, it is subject to the tax provided for in article L. 115-6 of the Code du cinéma et de l’image animée and its…

The initial contribution gives rise to the conclusion of a contract with the delegated production company before the end of the shooting or before the end of the production of the animation for works belonging to the animation genre or before the start of editing for works composed entirely of pre-existing images. However, where the contract has not yet been concluded, the initial contribution may, on a provisional basis, give…

By way of derogation from article 311-9, for the benefit of automatic aid, the minimum proportion of the initial contribution is reduced to: 1° 15% for works in the animation genre that meet the following conditions: a) Be the subject of international pre-sales contracts for an amount at least equal to the difference between the amount of the initial contribution that would result from the application of a minimum proportion…