Key Benefits:
Prime Minister,
On the report of the Minister of Economy, Finance and Industry and the Minister of Culture and Communication,
Due to the postal code and Telecommunications;
Given the amended Decree No. 55-486 of 30 April 1955 on various financial provisions, in particular Article 30;
In view of Decree No. 98-376 of 14 May 1998 repealing Articles R. 15 to R. 20 of the Code of the Posts and telecommunications;
Given Decree No. 2002-858 of 3 May 2002 establishing aid for facsimile transmission of daily newspapers,
Décrète:
Support is granted to daily newspapers that meet the following conditions:
-be written in French;
-benefit from a certificate of registration on the registers of the Joint Committee Publications and news agencies;
-be printed on newsprint for at least 90 % of their surface;
-appear at least five times a week.
However, assistance is also given to publications that were available on date The intervention of the aforementioned decree of 14 May 1998, of the tariff reductions applying to the charges relating to the transmission by a facsimile process of the dailies and the publications which are assimilated to them for the purpose of printing them in a
The press companies that meet the conditions set out in Article 30 of the decree of 30 April 1955, above.
The distribution of the aid between the dailies meeting the conditions laid down in Article 2 of this Decree shall be carried out by the media development directorate.
The subsidy is calculated on the basis of The reimbursement of up to 50 % of the expenditure resulting from the use of telecommunications networks and services by the publications concerned for their transmission through the facsimile process for printing in one or more Multiple centers different from the place of edit.
Requests for reimbursement of the expenses referred to in Article 3 shall be directed to the management of the media development, directly by the press companies or through operators Operating a remote transmission system for their account, in the form of semi-annual summary statements no later than 31 March for the repayment of the last half of the previous year and no later than 30 September for the first half of the previous year.
Applications must be accompanied by the following documents:
-the tax and social certificates of the competent authorities, allowing the regularity of the company's situation to be determined The tax law and social security legislation or, failing that, a statement on the publisher's honour;
-a copy of the invoices for the expenses referred to in Article 3 for the period for which the refund is requested.
Where an application is submitted by an operator acting on behalf of the press undertakings, the latter shall undertake to pass on the amount of the aid allocated to it in proportion to that which is due to each of the beneficiary
. Direction of media development can control the indications provided by all means.
The aid shall be instituted for one year.
The first refunds granted to the publishing companies shall be seated on the expenditure of the first half of 2003, as defined in Article 3 of the
The Minister of Economy, Finance and Industry, the Minister of Culture and Communication, the Minister Delegate to the Budget and Budget Reform and the Minister responsible for Industry are Responsible for the execution of this Decree, which shall be published in the Official Journal of the French Republic.
Done at Paris, January 8, 2003.
Jean-Pierre Raffarin
By the Prime Minister:
Minister of Culture
and Communication,
Jean-Jacques Aillagon
Minister of Economy,
Finance and Industry,
Francis Mer
Budget and Budget
Minister,
Alain Lambert
Industry Minister,
Nicole Fontaine
