Public intervention: The French Competition Authority criticizes the sharing mechanism proposed by the Ministry of Culture to increase digital equipments in movie theaters (Salles de cinéma)

*This article is an automatic translation of the original article, provided here for your convenience. Read the original article. The Competition Authority, to which the Minister for Economic Affairs had requested in October to consider a financial support package proposed by the Centre national de la cinématographie et de l'image animée (CNC) to the digital equipment for movie theatres, returned yesterday, February 1. 2010, its opinion No. 10-A-02. In essence, he was asked whether the intervention the Ministry of Culture was necessary, if the public service envisaged by the Ministry of Culture was the CNC's intervention could lead to distortions of competition and, where appropriate, consider the terms and conditions that should to provide a framework for this intervention". Despite