France: : Conseil d’Etat cancels decree extending national collective agreement for cinematographic production sector

• Autores: Amélie Blocman
• Localización: IRIS: Legal Observations of the European Audiovisual Observatory, ISSN-e 1023-8565, Nº. 4, 2015, pág. 7
• Idioma: inglés
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• Resumen

  • On 24 February 2015, the Conseil d’Etat announced the cancellation of the decree extending the application of the national collective agreement for the cinematographic production sector, signed in July 2013, to the entire profession (see IRIS 2013-7/12). The agreement lays down the remuneration for workers and technicians in the cinema sector; it was originally signed in January 2012 by the employees’ trade unions and the association of independent producers (Association des Producteurs Indépendants - API), after ten years of negotiations and against a background of serious inter-professional tension. Various employers’ organisations opposed to the text had appealed to the Conseil d’Etat on the grounds that powers had been exceeded. They called for the decree extending the collective agreement to be cancelled due to the lack of representativeness of the signatory employers. Although most of the applicant parties withdrew after the producer-employers’ organisations signed a codicil in October 2013 introducing a waiver mechanism for low-budget films (see IRIS 2013-10/24), the association of producers of publicity films (Association des Producteurs de Films Publicitaires) maintained the appeal.