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The goals of the Ministry of Foreign and European Affairs include the summarization and presentation of information on the evolution of the international market situation, as well as preparing foreign policy from the French authorities, the designing of foreign policy outside of France, coordinating French international relations, protecting French interests abroad and assisting French nationals overseas.
The implementation of a head office of globalization, development and partnerships in April 2009 in the reform sector of the Ministry, originally thought-up by Bernard Kouchner, allows French diplomacy to better anticipate, identify and respond to the challenges of globalization. This can most notably be seen, in a cultural perspective, by a policy supported by the efforts of creative and cultural French industries overseas.
Ubifrance, the French agency for the international development of business, is an industrial and commercial public establishment that is placed under the supervision of the Ministery of Economy, Industry, and Employment, the Secretary of State in charge of foreign commerce, and the DGTPE.
Its mission is to accompany French companies in their pursuit towards exportation, starting from a complete export diagnosis (made at the regional level), up until the execution of their plans in foreign markets.
As the delegated operator of the Ministry of Foreign and European Affairs and the Ministry of Culture and Communication for international cultural exchanges, Institut Français covers the fields of performing arts, visual arts, architecture, literature, cinema, and cultural engineering. Institut Français revolves around three major points: distributing French creation in all its forms and disciplines, giving care and attention to cultures around the world upon their arrival in France, and finally, developing its expertise and actions with French cultural networks overseas, French communes, multilateral organisations, and major institutions, along with all of their creators, authors, etc.
The SNEP is a professional union, member of the IFPI. It regroups around forty members and is their spokesperson when communicating with the Government, parliamentarians, the administration as well as other professional organizations, the press and the public.
It is in charge of all the juridical, fiscal, social or economic questions.
It releases economic and statistical studies too and has developed a system of ‘work committees' enabling the organization to take more efficient actions towards the profession's economic and juridical life.
SPPF/UPFI (Civil Union of Record Producers in France)
SPPF: Created in 1986, the SPPF is an organisation that is in charge of collecting and distributing the rights for record and video producers. Its 1,200 members are exclusively French and international independent producers.
The principal mission of the SPPF consists of distributing the ‘rights of equitable pay’ and the payment of audiovisual and sound-related privacy fees, as well as the ‘right of authorisation,’ music videos, on-hold telephone music, streaming). It also makes available a wide range of services, such as the creation of a Social Repertoire, an agreement negotiation cadre, and the protection and representation of their associates on both a national and international level.
Outside of this essential activity, the SPPF is also in charge of financially supporting music creation through general interest plans and direct financial aid to producers (for record production, live performances, and artist line-up).
UPFI: Created in July 1993, the UPFI is a professional organisation whose main purpose is to represent the Independent Record Production and Distribution sector.
UPFI consists of 80 companies and independent companies that are active in musical genres as diverse as French and international pop, classical, jazz, techno, world and children’s music.
This association represents its members in front of the public authorities and the Parliament, as well as different professional organisations in the music industry (producers, songwriters, artists, live shows, detail distribution, etc.).
The primary objective of UPFI is to promote and reinforce the domain of independent record production in France, taking into account the indispensable contribution of independents to the creation of music throughout the country.
The SCPP is made up of more than 600 independent producers and international majors.
It is an organization that collects and shares out the income collected for its members from users of phonograms and videos.
The SCPP support musical creation by providing financial help for recording albums, video productions, tours and showcases as well as for training artists.
SACEM manages the material and professional interests of its members in France and abroad. It collects the songwriter’s fees from the song distributors and redistributes them to their creators and publishers. Through their cultural actions, they also contribute to the creation, production and circulation of new music by accompanying them with innovative projects, such as different assistance programs.
The FCM supports music creation and promotion as well as the development of artists' careers.
Record, video and audiovisual productions, live music, artist and musician training, opera creation, contemporary musical theatre and the promotion of artists abroad can obtain financial support from the FCM through its different programs.
The main goal of the CNV is to help develop live shows in the genre of popular music by reinforcing and financing tours, festivals, concert promotions and professional acts.
Other professional organisations stand beside bureauexport in its unwavering attempt to develop its business model and to continue to respond to the needs of the French export music professionnals to the best of its abilities.
Since 1993, Francophonie Diffusion has insured the international radio promotion of French music production and its artists.
Its actions have been registered in the export assistance plans, which were set in place by professional organisations and French public authorities. artists.
Today, Francophonie Diffusion is a promotional platform that proposes legal offerings for radio and online media on five continents. artists.
Apart from this, Francophonie Diffusion can also be used as an interface between producers and distributors.
CSDEM unites pop music publishers. Its main objectives concern protecting copyright laws, music promotion and development, and the representation and defense of the profession and the domestic and international interests of its members.
On a national level, CSDEM’s plan is being put into effect in several domains: the collective management domain (concerning the publishers’ relationships with SACEM/SDRM), the non-collective management domain, and professional representation with all of the players and institutions in the music industry.
On an international level, CSDEM is a member of the International Confederation of Music Publishers (CIEM/ICMP)
MMFF is a syndicate that was created in 1999 by a group of ten managers who wanted to develop a French branch of the international federation of managers ‘International Manager Forum.’ The existence of MMFF is thanks to its dynamic and enthusiastic volunteers who wish to encourage professional dialogues between managers and their partners.
