Federal Act
on Film Production and Film Culture
(Film Act, FiA)

¹ The fin­an­cing of film pro­mo­tion is gov­erned by Art­icle 27 of the Cul­ture Pro­mo­tion Act of 11 Decem­ber 2009¹³.¹⁴

² In­come from the tax on the pro­mo­tion of the di­versity of films on of­fer, con­tri­bu­tions from broad­cast­ing or­gan­isa­tions and on­line film pro­viders as well as any pay­ments and be­ne­fits from third parties are in­cluded in the fin­an­cial budget. In­ten­ded uses pur­poses:

a.

Tasks in ac­cord­ance with Art­icles 3–6;

b.

Tasks in con­nec­tion with the col­lec­tion of the tax;

c.

Tasks in con­nec­tion with the en­force­ment of Chapter 3a.¹⁵

³ The FOC shall al­loc­ate the avail­able re­sources an­nu­ally to the pro­mo­tion areas in ac­cord­ance with Art­icles 3–6. In do­ing so it takes ac­count of the pro­mo­tion con­cepts and stip­u­lates the max­im­um amounts of as­sist­ance that may be awar­ded to any in­di­vidu­al pro­ject in each pro­mo­tion area.