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French Cinema and Moving Image CodeIn force
Paragraph 1: Investment in production

Article 311-61

The production company has a period of three years from the date of issue of the prior authorisation to obtain final authorisation.If this period is not respected, the production company is obliged to…

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French Cinema and Moving Image CodeIn force
Subsection 1: Conditions relating to beneficiaries

Article 311-3

To be eligible for financial aid for the production and preparation of audiovisual works, production companies must meet the following conditions:1° Be established in France;2° Have chairmen, director…

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French Cinema and Moving Image CodeIn force
Paragraph 1: Purpose and eligibility criteria

Article 311-101

I. - Music videos must be produced with the assistance of:1° Authors and technical creative collaborators who are French nationals or assimilated;2° Technical industries established in France or on th…

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French Civil CodeIn force
Section 1: Evidence and presumptions

Article 311-1

Possession of status is established by a sufficient collection of facts that reveal the filiation and kinship link between a person and the family to which he or she is said to belong. The main of the…

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French Insurance CodeIn force
Section VII: Cooperation and exchange of information

Article L311-59

I.-For persons referred to in Article L. 311-1 who have subsidiaries established abroad and for persons referred to in Article L. 311-1 belonging to a cross-border group in which at least one of the e…

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French Cinema and Moving Image CodeIn force
Subsection 1: Conditions relating to beneficiaries

Article 311-4

Television service publishers and on-demand audiovisual media service publishers are not eligible for financial support for the production and preparation of audiovisual works.Public establishments an…

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French Cinema and Moving Image CodeIn force
Section 1: General provisions

Article 311-1

Automatic financial aid and selective financial aid are awarded to support the production and preparation of audiovisual works.

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French Cinema and Moving Image CodeIn force
Paragraph 1: Purpose and eligibility criteria

Article 311-102

A minimum of ten days' work is required for music videos, covering all of the following positions: director, cinematographer, editor, colourist, animator, graphic designer and set designer, including…

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French Cinema and Moving Image CodeIn force
Subsection 4: Conditions relating to aid intensity

Article 311-18

The amount of aid for the production and preparation of a given audiovisual work may not exceed 40% of the final cost of that work and, in the case of an international co-production, 40% of the French…

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French Cinema and Moving Image CodeIn force
Paragraph 1: General provisions

Article 311-16

Audiovisual works must be produced by delegated production companies.For the purposes of granting aid for the production of the same work, this status may only be granted to a maximum of two productio…

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