Support for the pluralism of regional and local periodicals

Meadowpresentation of aid

Created by the decree of 10 May 1996, the purpose of the fund for aid to the regional and local periodical press is to promote the circulation at the number of the titles of the regional press for political and general information, The European Parliament, the European Parliament and the Council are all aware of the need to ensure that the European Parliament, the Council, the Commission and the European Parliament are fully involved. 

In fact, since the regional press sales networks are largely located in rural and semi-rural areas,In rural areas, any effort to develop number sales entails significant financial burdens in relation to the financial size of the publishing companies. 

The original scheme was modified by the decree of 20 November 1997 which created a second section to support the subscription distribution of the regional weekly press. The aim was to take into account the situation of the weeklies most affected by the increase in postal rates resulting from the press/post/state negotiations (Galmot agreements).

Decree no. 2004-1312 of 26 November 2004 repeals the aforementioned decrees and in particular opens the benefit of this fund to the titles of the regional weekly press written in a regional language.

Finally, a reform took place with decree no. 2016-1161 of 26 August 2016. It has extended the scheme to bimonthly, monthly, bimonthly and quarterly, for which a third section of aid is intended. The aid was renamed “aid to the pluralism of the regional and local periodical press” on this occasion. 

The benerecipients

The aid benefits regional and local press publications other than dailies.

That is to say:
a) For weeklies, one to three times a week and more than 40 times a year; 

b) For other publications, be a bimonthly, a monthly, a bimonthly or a quarterly and appear between four and forty times a year. 

Criteria of eligibility

Aid is granted to publications meeting the following conditions: 

• Be written in French or in a regional language used in France; 
• Be registered in the registers of the Joint Committee on Publications and News Agencies; 
• Be a publication of political and general information.
   

No aid may be paid to publications:

• The contents of which resulted in a conviction by the Director of the publication, which became final in the five years preceding the application for aid, pursuant to Articles 24 or 24a of the Law of 29 July 1881 on Freedom of the Press; 
• Or which do not satisfy the conditions laid down in the first paragraph of Article 30 of the Treaty Decree of No. 55-486 30 April 1955* ; 
• Or who have received aid to the journals of the National Book Centre in the year preceding the year in which the aid was granted; 
• Or consisting of a selection of articles already published in other titles.

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

Montant aid 

The fonds is divided into three sections.

The unit rate of subsidy and the allocation of appropriations between these three sections are decided by the Director-General for Media and Cultural Industries. However, the amount of appropriations allocated to 1^era may not be less than 85 % of the total allocation of the Fund.

*Section 1*

Aid under the first section is granted to weeklies.  The aid allocated to each publication shall be calculated by multiplying the unit rate by the average number of copies actually sold in the calendar year preceding the year in which the aid was granted. However, the amount of aid granted to a publication may not be less than that which a regional weekly publication with a total circulation paid for by the number of 2000 copies per issue would obtain, A publication with a total paid circulation of 20,000 copies per issue.

*Section 2*

Aid granted under Section 2 shall be granted to weeklies:

a) Of which at least 50% of the copies published in the calendar year preceding the year of allocation of aid weighed less than 100 grams;

b) Who had an actual paid circulation by postal subscription representing, in number of copies per issue, at least 50% of their total paid circulation. Paid distribution does not include subscriptions paid in number by third parties and subscriptions whose price is less than 50% of the normal subscription rate.

 The aid allocated to each publication shall be calculated by multiplying the unit rate by the number of copies actually sold by postal subscription in the calendar year preceding the year in which the aid was granted. However, the amount of aid granted to a publication may not exceed that which a publication with a paid circulation of 10,000 copies per issue would obtain. Aid under Section 2 may be combined, where appropriate, with aid under Section 1.

*Section 3*

Aid under Section 3 shall be granted to eligible publications other than weeklies.  The aid allocated to each publication shall be calculated by multiplying the unit rate by the number of copies actually sold in the calendar year preceding the year in which the aid was granted. However, the amount of aid granted to a publication may not be less than that which would be granted to a publication with a total annual paid circulation of 20,000 copies, a publication with a total annual paid circulation of 200,000 copies.

The deadline for ca depositThe deadline is 30 April 2022.

You can also download the form at the bottom of the page, and send it with all the documents requested to:

pluralisme.presse@culture.gouv.fr

Please consider naming your documents concisely. 

Supporting documents with a large volume can be deposited on the server France transfer. Using other file sharing platforms (Google Drive, Dropbox...) does not guarantee that documents will be received correctly.