Support for pluralism of all online press services (SPTEL)

Support is granted to online news services that meet the following conditions:

• Be an online press service recognized by IPG by the Joint Commission on Publications and News Agencies (CAPC)
• To be an on-line press service published by a press company which can justify a closed accounting year covering the calendar year preceding the year of award of aid.

No aid can be paid to online press services:

• The content of which was condemned by the Director of the publication, which became final in the five years preceding the application for aid, pursuant to articles 24 or 24 bis the law of 29 July 1881 on press freedom;
• Who do not meet the conditions imposed by the first paragraph of Article 30 of Decree No. 55-486 of 30 April 1955*;
• Who in the same year received aid under the Community Social Information Media Support Fund governed by the Decree no. 2016-511 of 26 April 2016 ;
• In the same year, they received further aid for pluralism.

*Article 30, paragraph 1 of the Decree of 30 April 1955:"Natural or legal persons who apply for grants, grants, loans and guarantees of an economic or social nature provided for by the legislation and regulations in force must show that their situation is in order, both in relation to the bodies responsible for managing the social security services and in relation to the administrations responsible for collecting taxes.

The amount of the grant is €4 million, for around 100 expected beneficiaries.

The grant takes the form of operating aid. It is awarded annually to each publishing structure on behalf of its all-online press service(s). It’s a one-time payment in the fall of 2023.

The grant consists of aid, an improvement and a financial supplement. The Director-General for Media and Cultural Industries shall decide each year on the allocation to each of these components, within the limits of the appropriations available.

*Help*

A unit subsidy rate shall be calculated by dividing the available appropriations by the total amount of editorial expenditure in the year preceding the year in which the aid was granted by all eligible online press services.
The aid allocated to each on-line press service shall be calculated by multiplying the unit subsidy rate by the amount of editorial expenditure made by the on-line press company on behalf of the on-line 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 annual subscription sales price of IPG’s all online press services, observed during the calendar year preceding the year in which the aid was granted.
A unit subsidy rate shall be calculated by dividing the available credits by the number of paid subscribers, declared in the year preceding the year of award of the aid, by the total of all eligible online press services.
The bonus for each all-online press service shall be calculated by multiplying the unit subsidy rate by the number of paying subscribers declared by the all-online press service in the year preceding the year in which the aid was granted.
The Director-General for Media and Cultural Industries sets a threshold for the number of subscribers each year above which the unit subsidy rate is reduced by 100%.

*Complémefinancial nt*

A financial supplement is awarded to online press companies established less than three years ago, publishing an all-online press service created less than three years before the year in which the aid was granted.
The supplement is calculated by dividing the available appropriations by the number of on-line press services eligible for this supplement.

*Cap*

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

• Opening of the deposit of files: 01 April 2023.
• Deadline for submission: 31 May 2023, at 23:59 (Paris time). No file may be filed or considered after this date.
• Announcement of results: Fall 2023, by mail and email.

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