The EU's Quota Conundrum: A Test of Streaming Services' Will in France The battle brewing between major streaming services—Netflix, Disney+, Amazon Prime Video—and their French counterparts over programming quotas and theatrical windowing rules is a telling sign of the European Union's regulatory ambitions.
France has imposed strict regulations on how much local content these platforms must produce, reflecting its "love hate relationship" with streaming services.
At the heart of this controversy lies the EU's 2022 regulation requiring a 20% quota of locally produced programming for major streamers active in the country.