Device overview
What is aid for regional and local periodicals?
The regional press sales networks are mainly located in rural and semi-rural areas. Any effort to develop sales by number therefore generates significant financial costs in relation to the financial size of the publishing companies.
The purpose of aid to the regional and local periodical press is to to promote the circulation of regional political and general information press titleswhose preservation is essential to the pluralism of expression and the cohesion of the economic and social fabric.
What the law says
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. This 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).
The Decree No. 2004-1312 of 26 November 2004 In particular, this aid was extended to regional weekly press titles in a regional language.
The Decree No. 2016-1161 of 26 August 2016 extended the scheme to bi-monthly, monthly, bi-monthly and quarterly schemes for which the third section of the aid is intended. The aid was renamed "aid to the pluralism of the regional and local periodical press" on this occasion.
The Decree no. 2023-347 of 4 May 2023 extended the scheme until 31 December 2025.
Am I concerned by this approach?
- Associations
- Private companies
The aid benefits regional and local press publications other than daily newspapers.
Publications must meet the following criteria:
- For weeklies: appear one to three times a week and more than forty times a year;
- For other publications: be a bimonthly, a monthly, a bimonthly or a quarterly and appear between four and forty times a year.
Publications must also:
- Be written in French or in a regional language used in France;
- Be registered on the registers of the Joint Committee on Publications and News Agencies;
- Be a publication of political and general information. The IPG qualification corresponds to the letter "C" of the CPPAP number for weeklies and to the letter "D" of the CPPAP number for other periodicities
No aid may be paid to publications:
- The contents of which gave rise to a conviction of the Director of the publication which became final in the five years preceding the application for aid, pursuant to the articles 24 or 24 bis the Press Freedom Act of 29 July 1881;
- Who do not meet the conditions set out in the first paragraph of section 30 of Decree No. 55-486 30 April 1955*;
- Who benefited from assistance to the National Book Centre’s journals in the fiscal year preceding the year in which the assistance was awarded.
*Article 30, paragraph 1 of the decree of 30 April 1955: "Natural or legal persons who apply for the award of grants, premiums, loans and guarantees of an economic or social nature provided for by the legislation and regulations in force will have to prove their regularity, both with regard to the bodies responsible for the management of social security services and with regard to the administrations responsible for the collection of taxes."
Attention: This approach is not open to the Overseas Departments and Territories. Overseas press companies are invited to apply to support for the pluralism of ultramarine securities.
Procedure
The amount of the grant is €1,470,000, distributed among approximately 250 beneficiaries.
The grant takes the form of operating aid. It is allocated annually to each publishing structure on behalf of its publication(s). It is paid in one lump sum, in the fall of 2024.
Help is divided into three sections.
The unit subsidy rate and the allocation of funds between these three sections are decided by the Director General of Media and Cultural Industries. However, the amount of the appropriations allocated to the first section may not be less than 85 % of the overall allocation of the fund.
*Section 1*
The aid granted under the first section shall benefit weekly newspapers. The aid allocated to each publication shall be calculated by multiplying the unit rate by the average number of copies actually sold in the issue during the calendar year preceding the year of allocation of the aid. However, the amount of aid allocated to a publication may not be less than that which would be obtained by a regional weekly publication with a total circulation paid for in the number of 2,000 copies per publication, or more than a publication with a total paid circulation of 20,000 copies per issue.
*Section 2*
The aid granted under Section 2 shall benefit weekly newspapers:
- Of which at least 50 % of the copies published in the calendar year preceding the year of allocation of the aid weighed less than 100 grams;
- Which had an effective paid distribution by postal subscription representing, in number of copies per publication, at least 50% of their total paid distribution. Subscriptions paid for by third parties and subscriptions whose price is less than 50% of the normal subscription price are not taken into account for paid distribution.
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 of allocation of the aid. However, the amount of aid allocated to a publication cannot be higher than that which would be obtained by a publication with a distribution paid by post of 10,000 copies per publication. Aid paid under Section 2 may be combined, where appropriate, with aid paid under Section 1.
*Section 3*
Aid granted under the third section shall benefit eligible publications other than weekly newspapers. 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 of allocation of the aid. However, the amount of aid allocated to a publication may not be less than that which would be obtained by a publication with a total paid annual circulation of 20,000 copies, or more than a publication with a total paid annual circulation of 200,000 copies.
- Applications open: 01 March 2024.
- Application deadline: 30 April 2024, 23:59 (Paris time). No file can be considered after this date.
- Announcement of results: in fall 2024, by mail and by mail.
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A question?
If you have any questions about supporting the pluralism of the regional and local periodical press, please contact the Bureau of the Economic Regime of the Press:
Media and Cultural Industries Branch (CMIB)
Bureau of the Economic Regime of the Press
pluralisme.presse@culture.gouv.fr
01 40 15 33 70
Address: 182 Rue Saint-Honoré, 75001 Paris
Other aid for media pluralism
In order to guarantee the pluralism of the press, the Ministry of Culture offers various aids to the press services:
- Support for regional and local periodical press pluralism: on this page
- Support for media pluralism online
- Aid for the pluralism of ultramarine securities
- Support for national political and general information publications with limited advertising resources (PFRP)
- Assistance to national political and general information dailies with limited advertising resources (QFRP)
- Assistance to regional, departmental and local political and general information dailies with limited classifieds resources (QFRPA)
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