Aid for pluralism of all-online press services (SPTEL)

The aid is granted to online press services meeting the following conditions:

• Be an online press service recognised by IPG by the Joint Commission for Publications and News Agencies (CPPAP)
• Be an online press service published by a press company that can justify a closed accounting year covering the calendar year preceding the year of award of the aid.

No aid may be paid to press services online:

• The contents of which gave rise to a conviction by the Director of the publication which had become final during the five years preceding the application for aid, pursuant to the articles 24 or 24bis the Law of 29 July 1881 on freedom of the press;
• Who do not meet the conditions laid down in the first paragraph of Article 30 of Decree No. 55-486 of 30 April 1955*;
• Who received the same year from the allocation of aid from the fund of support to local social information media governed by the decree no. 2016-511 of 26 April 2016 ;
• Which benefited the same year from the allocation of another aid to pluralism.

*Article 30, paragraph 1 of the Decree of 30 April 1955: "Natural or legal persons seeking the award of grants, grants, loans and guarantees of an economic or social nature provided for by the legislation and regulations in force must justify the regularity of their situation, both with regard to the bodies responsible for the management of social security services and with regard to the authorities responsible for the collection of taxes.'

The amount of the grant is 4 million euros, for a hundred expected beneficiaries.

The grant takes the form of operating aid. It is allocated annually to each publishing structure on behalf of its press service(s) all online. It is paid at once, in the fall of 2023.

The grant consists of aid, a subsidy and a financial supplement. Each year, the Director General of Media and Cultural Industries decides on the allocation for each of these components, within the limits of the available appropriations.

*Help*

A unit subsidy rate is calculated by dividing the appropriations available by the total amount of editorial expenditure incurred in the year preceding the year in which the aid was granted, by all eligible online press services.
The aid allocated to each all-online press service shall be calculated by multiplying the unit subsidy rate by the amount of editorial expenses incurred by the online press company on behalf of the all-online press service in the preceding financial year the year in which the aid was granted.

*Bonus*

This is granted to all-online press services whose annual subscription sales price is between 30% and 160% of the average selling price of the annual subscriptions of all IPG all-online press services, observed during the calendar year preceding the year of grant.
A unit subsidy rate is calculated by dividing the available appropriations by the number of paying subscribers, declared during the financial year preceding the year in which the aid was granted, by all eligible all-online press services.
The subsidy allocated to each all-online news service shall be calculated by multiplying the unit subsidy rate by the number of paying subscribers declared by the all-online news service during the financial year preceding the year in which the aid was granted.
Each year, the Director General of Media and Cultural Industries sets a threshold for the number of subscribers above which the unit subsidy rate is cut by 100%.

*Complementfinancial nt*

A financial supplement is awarded to online press companies created less than three years ago, publishing an all-online press service created less than three years before the year of grant.
The supplement is calculated by dividing the available credits by the number of all online press services eligible for this supplement.

*Cap*

For online press companies created more than three years ago, publishing an all-online press service created more than three years ago on the date of the year of the grant, the amount of the aid granted may not exceed 25% of the total revenues of the all-online press service, excluding public subsidies, for the financial year preceding the year in which the aid was granted.
The amount of aid allocated to an online press company publishing one or more all-online press services may not exceed 30% of its operating expenses for the financial year corresponding to the year in which the aid was granted.

• Opening of the filing: 01 April 2023.
• Deadline for submission of applications: 31 May 2023, at 23:59 (Paris time). No application can be filed or taken into account after this date.
• Announcement of the results: in autumn 2023, by mail and email.

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