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

¹ The Fed­er­al Coun­cil shall es­tab­lish a Fed­er­al Film Com­mis­sion («the Film Com­mis­sion»), which ad­vises the au­thor­it­ies on all im­port­ant is­sues re­lat­ing to film cul­ture, film policy and the im­ple­ment­a­tion of this Act.

² The Film Com­mis­sion must in par­tic­u­lar be con­sul­ted:

a.

on the pro­vi­sions for the im­ple­ment­a­tion of this Act, the pro­mo­tion con­cepts and the dis­tri­bu­tion plans;

b.

on the as­sess­ment of the pro­mo­tion con­cepts and pro­mo­tion in­stru­ments;

c.

on the res­ults of the as­sess­ment of the di­versity of films on of­fer and lin­guist­ic di­versity.

³ The Fed­er­al Coun­cil de­term­ines the com­pos­i­tion of the Film Com­mis­sion. It ap­points its chair­per­son and its mem­bers.

⁴ The FDHA reg­u­lates the or­gan­isa­tion and pro­ced­ure. It may es­tab­lish com­mit­tees from the Film Com­mis­sion and del­eg­ate spe­cif­ic tasks to them.