Every student enrolled in higher education in France pays the CVEC. It's €103 for the 2025-26 academic year, due once per year, and your university won't validate your inscription without the attestation PDF.
You file it on cvec.etudiant.gouv.fr through your MesServices.etudiant.gouv.fr account. Boursiers, refugees, and asylum seekers file the same form for free and still receive the attestation. Everyone else pays €103 by card.
Pay it the moment you know which school you're going to. There's no benefit to waiting and the deadline is tied to your university's inscription cut-off, not a national one. The attestation generates immediately on payment.
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Yes, for any student enrolled in higher education in France (BTS, university, grandes écoles, BUT, prépa post-bac, écoles privées reconnues). You can't finalise inscription without the attestation. The only exemptions are CROUS scholarship holders, refugees, and asylum seekers — they file the same form and pay nothing.
€103 for the 2025-26 academic year, paid once. The amount is set by decree each year and has hovered between €92 and €103 since the contribution was introduced.
There's no national deadline — the cut-off is set by each university's inscription calendar. In practice that usually means before mid-September for autumn enrolment. Pay as soon as you know which school you're attending; the attestation is required before your inscription can be validated.
You file the CVEC on the same portal but you don't pay. You upload your bourse notification, get the attestation immediately, and hand it to your university like everyone else. The form is mandatory even when the contribution is zero.
Sign back into cvec.etudiant.gouv.fr with the same MesServices.etudiant.gouv.fr account you used to file. The attestation PDF is available for download for the entire academic year — there's no fresh payment to make.