Company: TGE
Filing Date: 2025-04-11
Form Type: F-4
Source: 0001213900-25-031177
Chunk: 336

Company: Generation Essentials Group
Filing Date: 2025-04-11
Form: F-4
Chunk 336
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. In this area, several French texts have transposed Directive (EU) 2019/790 of 17 April 2019 on copyright and related rights in the Digital Single Market; •deposit requirements applying to press publishers i.e., (i) administrative deposit obligations for national press organs, i.e., for periodicals with national circulation (Act 1881) and (ii) legal deposit obligations for periodicals, which concern written material of any kind and are the responsibility of both publishers and printers under the French Heritage Code (“ FHC”, Code du Patrimoine). This deposit is organized by region and is carried out at the Bibliothèque nationale de France(BNF) for the Île -de -Franceregion; •the Act 1881, the Law of 1 August 1986 on freedom of communication (“ Loi Léotard”) and the Law of 21 June 2004 on confidence in the digital economy (“ LCEN”) that lay down a certain number of compulsory information that publishers must include on each publication. The LCEN itself sets out the compulsory information for online publications. Together with the Digital Service Act, this same law requires the implementation of measures to fight online hate; •the Law of 4 January 2010 that protects the confidentiality of journalists’ sources, and the Law of 14 November 2016 that requires press companies to introduce an ethics charter within their business; •obligations applying to advertising, in particular as regards the distinction between advertising space and editorial content ( Loi Léotard) and the obligation to identify online advertising (LCEN). Distribution of audiovisual works Our French subsidiaries interested in distributing audiovisual works may have to comply in particular to the following rules (some of which are genuinely specific to France): •copyright law, the rules of which are codified in the French Intellectual Property Code; •the principle of release window schedule ( chronologie des médias), which governs the chronology of releases on the various distribution channels (cinemas, television, VOD services, etc.). This chronology is decided by professional agreement, the latest in force being that provided for in the Order of February9, 2025; •the rules codified in the French Cinema and Moving Image Code (“ CMI”, Code du cinéma et de l’image animée). The rules vary depending on the distribution channel for the audiovisual work. In particular, as the audiovisual sector is eligible for financial aid from the CNC ( Centre National du