The form of the production account, the definition of the different categories of expenditure, the nature of the means of financing and the methods of amortisation of the cost of production are determined by one or more professional agreements concluded between the professional organisations representing producers of audiovisual works and, together or separately, professional organisations representing distributors of these works, professional organisations representing television service publishers, or a group of representative television service publishers, professional authors’ organisations and organisations for the collective management of authors’ rights mentioned in Title II of Book III of Part One of the Intellectual Property Code. The agreements may be made binding on all interested parties in the sectors of activity concerned by order of the competent State authority.
In the absence of professional agreements made compulsory within one year of the publication of Law 2016-925 of 7 July 2016 on the freedom of creation, architecture and heritage, the form of the production account, the definition of expenses for the preparation, direction and post-production of a work, the nature of the means of financing and the methods of amortising the cost of production are set by decree in the Conseil d’Etat.