ARTE is made up of three separate companies in France and Germany: the Strasbourg based European Economic Interest Grouping ARTE GEIE plus two member companies acting as editorial and programme production centres, ARTE France in Paris and ARTE Deutschland in Baden-Baden.
FUNCTIONS

The Strasbourg based Head Office ARTE GEIE:

is in charge of programme strategy, commissioning policy and scheduling,
is responsible for broadcasting and on-air promotion and provides the language services required for multilingual transmission,
produces news, magazine programmes and some of the theme evenings,
plans and co-ordinates public relations activities, and
manages relations with european partners.