The exhibitor of an audio-visual programme is a person, institution or undertaking who exhibits films or other audio-visual programmes in public (in a movie theatre or shop, at a hotel or restaurant, etc.).

The distributor of a film is a person, institution or undertaking (a shop, kiosk, mail-order company, library, etc.) who offers audio-visual programmes to the public for sale, rental or lending or to be conveyed otherwise. Also Video-on-Demand service (i.e., the making of an audio-visual programme and its programme contents available to the public over a telecommunications network) constitutes distribution.

The distributor of magazines or newspapers is also deemed a distributor of audio-visual programmes if recordings of audio-visual programmes are distributed with the papers.

Irrespective of the manner of distribution or the place of exhibition, the exhibitor and the distributor shall ensure that unclassified audio-visual programmes are not exhibited and distributed to persons who have not attained the age of 18 and classified audio-visual programmes are not distributed in violation of the age category.