The main change in the agreement signed by the Ministers of Culture of both countries, Theodor Paleologu and Christine Albanel, is the percentage of financial contribution of the co-producers, between 20% and 80%. In the old agreement, co-producers had a 30-70% range, based on the final cost of the project

With the consent of both the parties, in some cases the threshold of 20% could descent to 10%, depending on the technical and artistic personel contributions the co-producers.

A new agreement was necessary to encourage co-production partnerships, especially with smaller Romanian co-producers who were unable to raise the larger amounts of money specified in the former agreement.