French company hosting non community artists in France and organizing a tour
Monday, 04 July 2005
“Our association, which has an entertainment promoter’s licence, is hosting a group of musicians from Nepal on an engagement contract. We are organizing a one-month tour of the group, in Belgium and the Netherlands. Can we draw up a sales contract with the foreign organizers? Will the artists then be declared and employed as salaried workers by us in France for the dates they work abroad?”
You can indeed draw up a contract for the sale of the show with these foreign organizers (see also fact sheet Foreign artist hired by a company based in France ).
In that case, your association employs the artists as salaried workers and pays welfare contributions and files the related returns to the French welfare organizations.
However, in that case, your partners based in another European Economic Area member state may nonetheless be required to register the artists and pay contributions to the institutions of their country.
This will depend on the length of time you have employed them as salaried workers in France before seconding them to another state, and on the legislation of the said state (in this respect, we advise you enquire further and ask the liaison organization or relevant institution in respect of secondment in the state concerned (contact details available on the CLEISS site, see Useful links ).
If you only employ them as salaried workers for a very short length of time in France, that will most probably be the case.
Should that be the case, to avoid double payment of welfare contributions, the artists could be hired and paid directly by your partners based in Belgium or the Netherlands.
