The Government is committed to the social protection of all French people. The social protection of nearly 270,000 artist authors (including nearly 40,000 affiliates) is managed by two dedicated structures, the Association pour la gestion de la sécurité sociale des auteurs (AGESSA) and the Maison des artistes, responsible for membership of the scheme and amicable recovery. The author artists also have to make to the other organizations of the general system for their performances and their forced recovery. This organization can cause difficulties.
Some professions, such as independent designers, are misidentified and are sent back and forth between two different organizations.
The social protection of artists is also distinguished by the lack of coverage of the risk of occupational accidents and diseases.
The Government wishes to study ways and means to improve this social coverage and the quality of service that artists authors enjoy in the management of their performances and their contributions, guaranteeing the management of affiliation and coverage files by contacts familiar with the specificities of these professions (particular nature of revenues, role of broadcasters, difference between taxable persons and affiliates), and taking into account the evolution of creation.
Aware of all these issues, Marisol TOURAINE, Minister of Social Affairs and Health, Aurélie FILIPPETTI, Minister of Culture and Communication and Bernard CAZENEUVE, Deputy Minister for the Budget, have asked the General Inspectorates of Social and Cultural Affairs to carry out an inventory before 1 June 2013 to enable a wide-ranging consultation to be undertaken with a view to preparing legislative provisions on the development of the Artists who will be presented in 2014.
To do so, the IGAS/IGAC mission will conduct a thorough dialogue and will meet in particular with the administrators, professional organizations representing the artist authors, broadcasters, societies of authors, the representative bodies of the staff of the AGESSA and the House of Artists to establish an inventory of the regime and to draw up the avenues of reform.
Proposals are expected on:
- the simplification of the procedures and the improvement of the quality of service for the artists authors, as for those who pay them;
- ways of improving the social coverage of artist authors, while respecting the balance of social security accounts and equity in the level of contribution.
It is at the end of this consultation that the three Ministers will propose the necessary legislative and regulatory changes resulting from the consultations conducted and the mission’s proposals. All of these proposals will be subject to consultation with all interested parties before being presented to Parliament.
Through this reform, the Government intends to strengthen the social protection of tens of thousands of workers who, through their professional commitment, contribute to the creative economy and the artistic and cultural life of our country.