French Cinema and Moving Image Code
In forceThe application for final approval must be accompanied by the following supporting documents:
1° An accounting document certified by an auditor indicating the final cost of the video game, the means of financing it and showing precisely the eligible expenditure incurred in France, in another Member State of the European Union, or in another State party to the Agreement on the European Economic Area that has signed a tax treaty with France containing an administrative assistance clause to combat tax evasion or avoidance, as well as in third countries;
2° A list of the names of the authors and creative collaborators who actually participated in or were assigned to the creation of the video game, specifying their nationality and, where applicable, their status as French residents;
3° A list of the names of the other companies or organisations called upon to participate in the creation of the video game and, for each of them, a copy of the invoices or other supporting documents and, where applicable, a copy of the service contract;
4° Any documents proving that the video game has actually been marketed;
5° Where applicable, the contract signed with a video game publisher and proof of acceptance by this publisher of the final version of the video game ready to be duplicated. This certificate states, where necessary, that the video game is published in its original versions in at least three languages in use in the European Union, including French;
6° A copy of the nominative social declaration provided for inarticle R. 133-14 of the French Social Security Code;
7° (Deleted)
8° All documents attesting to the definitive classification of the video game with regard to the classification systems in use in the industry aimed at limiting its availability to certain categories of minors, as well as the information needed to justify this;
9° A copy of the video game or dedicated access to the online version of the video game.
