The cabinet on Monday approved a
decree setting quotas for Italian films on Italian TV.
Culture Minister Dario Franceschini said the new rules
"valorise creativity and Italian cinema".
The cabinet said there would be "strong penalties" for
breaking the rules.
Amazon and Netflix will also have to apply them, it said.
The salient points of the new rules, sources said, are that
every Italian TV channel will have to show at least one
Italian-made film or serial in prime time once a week - or twice
a week for State broadcaster RAI.
There will also be a compulsory rise in investment quotas for
acquiring or producing Europan works, and sanctions for
non-compliance will also rise.
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