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[FR] Decisions Implementing the Decree of 2 February 1995 Relating to State Financial Backing for the Audio-visual Programme Industry

IRIS 1995-5:1/9

Ad van Loon

European Audiovisual Observatory

On 10 April 1995, Mr. Jacques Toubon, the Minister of Culture and French Language ( ministre de la culture et de la francophonie), took seven Decisions for the application of the Decree of 2 February 1995 relating to State financial backing for the audio-visual programme industry ( see IRIS 1995-3:6).

These decisions relate to:

- the organisation and operation of the commissions provided for in paragraph 1 or article 5 of the Decree of 2 February 1995 : a commission set up to give an opinion on requests for funds for the production and preparation of works of fiction, excluding sketches, cartoons, documentaries and for the production and preparation of works that reproduce live shows;

- the content of funding applications which should be handed in to the Centre National de la Cinématographie (CNC - National Cinematography Centre) by the production company;

- the conditions to be met for a work to be included on the list of reference works as provided for in paragraph II of article 6 of the Decree, notably that the production company must submit its request within the two weeks following the end of the quarter during which the work was broadcast for the first time by a television channel.

- the break-down of the works into groups, according to type, weighted duration and the cost of the work as laid down in paragraph III of article 6.

Moreover, on 18 April 1995, the Minister took a further Decision concerning the obligatory. references to be included on the audio-visual and sound documents given for statutory deposit to the National Audio-visual Institute (Institut national de l'audiovisuel, INA).