Approval of a screening room and its technical projection equipment is granted by the President of the Centre national du cinéma et de l’image animée for a screening room and its technical projection equipment or, in the case of touring activity, for the technical projection equipment alone, on the basis of a file which is attached to the application for authorisation to operate and which includes all elements capable of establishing their compliance with the technical specifications mentioned in Article R. 212-10.
The file includes, for the approval of a cinema, the dimensions, the number of spectator seats and a plan of the cinema, and, in all cases, a description of the technical projection equipment and a certificate of compliance with the technical specifications drawn up by an expert chosen by the applicant.