The House of Representatives approved during a legislative session, Monday by majority, Bill No. 18.23 relating to the film industry and reorganization of the Moroccan Cinematographic Center (CCM). Presenting this bill, adopted by 67 votes in favor and 27 abstentions, the Minister of Youth, Culture and Communication, Mohamed Mehdi Bensaid, specified that this legislative text aims to rehabilitate the cinematographic sector as a lever of economic, social and cultural development, while professionalizing it in order to be in line with developments and competitiveness at the international level. The bill, he continued, aims to provide the CCM with new prerogatives in order to support the film industry and promote Morocco as a destination for filming, develop the sector and rationalize its management. According to the minister, the bill brings a set of new features relating mainly to the development of legal rules relating to the authorization to exercise the activity of film production, in addition to establishing a new international approval system allowing executive production on behalf of natural or legal persons not subject to Moroccan law. This text also defines the rules governing the commercial and cultural exploitation of cinematographic films and provides for the adoption of an authorization system for the distribution of cinematographic films, in addition to the obligation to have an authorization issued by the CCM for the filming of films and the definition of filming locations for cinematographic films and audiovisual works within the framework of filming authorization.
