Netflix Loses First Round in Battle Against EU Rules Requiring Streamers to Fund Local Productions

The potentially landmark case centers on a 2023 law decree issued by the small Wallonia-Brussels Federation

By Nick Vivarelli

Nick Vivarelli

International Correspondent

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The Constitutional Court of Belgium has rejected a legal challenge by Netflix, which had appealed against the implementation of European Union rules that require streaming platforms to fund local productions in French-speaking Belgium.

The potentially landmark case centers on a 2023 law decree issued by the small Wallonia-Brussels Federation, which is one of the three federated communities of Belgium and home to 4.6 million French-speaking residents of Brussels and Wallonia. The Wallonia-Brussels Federation had stated that streamers including Netflix and Disney + were required to increase their investment to support local French-language content from 2.2% of their turnover in the region to 9.5% by 2027.

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