The Normal Inspectors of Cultural Affairs criticize the ASTP assist system ARTCENA

In a letter despatched at first of August 2023, Emmanuel Marcovitch, chief of workers of the Minister of Tradition on the time, requested Rima Abdul-Malak. Inspector Normal of Cultural Affairs (IGAC) your consider ASTP help strategies, particularly in favor of assist for manufacturing and distribution, in addition to assist for the resumption of theater operations. Mission justified, he identified, with the questions raised, lately, “Financial accumulation of assist supplied by society”. On the request of the Ministry of Tradition, the ASTP tried to supply components of a response by beginning a undertaking in 2020 that was meant to “rethink the present assist programs and [à] contemplate opening them nationally to all non-public leisure producers and entrepreneurs.” Then, in February 2023, she agreed a collection of reforms which was associated to the deficit assure, assist for employment and creation, and whose foremost innovation was the opening of the varied programs to all non-public theaters in France. It’s, amongst others, these adjustments that the IGAC was chargeable for analyzing, after which recommending, if essential, different fascinating enhancements.

The report submitted just a few weeks in the past estimates that the assistance system managed since 1964 by the Society for the Assist of Personal Theatre” nonetheless in the present day the legitimate gadget of the assist that the general public authorities have chosen to offer to personal theater” and that it’s “confirmed effectiveness as a result of he permits it sustaining the vitality and variety of dramatic creation inside this sector and to compensate for its financial fragility, which is structural.” Regardless of that, and regardless of the continuing reforms, it appears “Sufficiently open and accessible to all professionals who might declare it. Specifically, a administration of the ASTP that the IGAC is not going to hesitate to qualify “locked”, in assist of guidelines that result in low renewal of his our bodies. Sure, furthermore, sharp lack of equity and transparency within the assist system himself, which must be up to date accordinglyadditionally to “adapt it each to the actual ecosystem of personal theater and the actors of their range, but additionally to the coverage targets of public theater, because it doesn’t all the time seem in a stage”.

Calling ASTP “work alone threefold evolution : his administration, by permitting extra professionals and managers within the sector to intervene within the administration of the system; that is it beneficiaries of his assist, which have to be greater than the variety of members of the affiliation solely; and the one at the way it workswhich should guarantee transparency of assist and equal remedy between subsidy beneficiaries”, the IGAC points on the finish of its mission eight recommendations.

– Concerning the administration of the Affiliation :

• Re-ban it “for strengthen democracy of the Society and diversify your conditions in keeping with the next pointers: eradicate the reserved place of the president, open the board of administrators to certified individuals, enable every member to have one and just one deliberative vote, strengthen the position of elected administrators, scale back the size of mandates, decide out of membership”;

• « Enhance the advantage of assist from membership standinggo to ideaaffinity to entry it and eradicate the probationary interval imposed”, the IGAC judging the duty to hitch the ASTP to learn from its assist as an assault on the precept of equality;

• « Preserve cooperative standing of ASTP whereas recognizing his high quality as an operator and welcoming him to use the GBCP order.” In line with the IGAC, the principle benefit of the certificates of the State operator could be “to reaffirm the duty of the Ministry of Tradition vis-à-vis the Society”.

– On the non-public theater assist system :

• « Develop and publish common assist guidelines (RGDA) brings collectively the provisions at the moment divided between the inner rules, the help round and the word on assist ceilings”;

• « Publish assist award choices on the ASTP web site, mentioning the identify of the beneficiary corporations and the quantities awarded”;

• “Instantly start to meditate deeply on him a whole replace to the assistance system of the ASTP drawing inspiration from the situations advised by the mission and particularly adapting assist for distribution to the targets of the “higher output, higher distribution” plan, selling public/non-public bridges and reassessing assist to create by favoring the French audio system specifically. working with the purpose of cultural superiority”.

– On the funds of the Society :

• “Prioritize 4 funding streamswhich can have to be mixed: the elimination of the tax cap, the Tradition Go, the reinstatement of some assist and the re-sizing of the help system”;

• “Upkeep the discharge of the tax on comedy reveals and musicals ».

After studying the guidelines, ASTP has made a number of complaints.

The reality of figuring out the advantage of assist from membership standing request this, in keeping with her, “clarification”certainly such a call is “are likely to trigger the incomprehension of historic followers of society specifically.” Comparable “emotions” are anticipated, if the ASTP have been to move below s operator scheme. So she prefers the Committee for Skilled Financial Growth (CPDE) system. At the very least, the Affiliation proclaims thatshe is going to “oppose the switch from her non-public account to public accounting to adjust to the GBCP order, which might put him in a really severe operational issue and which doesn’t seem like affordable by way of [sa] dimension and floor space of ​​its actions. Lastly, concerning the non-completion of the taxthe ASTP remembers being there very favorable, after they “requested it from 2023 for PLF 2024” and unhappy that the Authorities didn’t observe via on it. And to say that “if we have been to significantly contemplate the resettlement and re-sizing of assist programs, we will remorse nevertheless that the ambitions deliberate is not going to come via​​​​ report for the growth of assist beneficiaries. affirmationeven the smallest assist to society ».