Decision No 1041/2009/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council (repealed)Show full title

2. Specific objective 2: Competitiveness and distribution

1. Operational objective

Facilitate the search for partners for co-productions.

Actions to be implemented:

• Support the organisation of forums for the development, financing, co-production and pre-sales of international co-productions, in particular co-production markets and partner search events (pitching), aiming at bringing together possible partners (e.g. script writers, directors, actors, producers and distributors).

2. Operational objective

Encourage international sales and promotion of audiovisual works.

Actions to be implemented:

• Encourage the conclusion of agreements between groupings of European and third-country rights-holders/sales agents/distributors to ensure the distribution (e.g. in cinemas, on TV, IPTV, Web TV and on VOD platforms) of their respective audiovisual works on the territory/territories of their partner(s).

• Raise public awareness, through reinforced promotion campaigns, of the release of films from European countries worldwide, and the release of third-country films in Europe.

• Support dubbing and subtitling for the distribution and dissemination through all available channels of European and third-country audiovisual works for the benefit of producers, distributors and broadcasters.

• Encourage the creation and consolidation of networks of artistic and industrial cooperation between European and third-country rights-holders/sales agents/distributors.