"Cinema censorship abolished, the system of controls and interventions that still allowed the State to intervene on the freedom of artists was definitively overcome", thus the Minister of Culture,
Dario Franceschini,
who signed the decree establishing the Commission for the classification of cinematographic works at the Directorate General Cinema of the Ministry of Culture with the task of verifying the correct classification of cinematographic works by the operators.
The intervention pursuant to the Cinema Law introduces the classification system and definitively overcomes the possibility of censoring cinematographic works: there is no longer an absolute prohibition on going out to theaters or leaving them conditional on cuts or changes. The Commission is chaired by the President emeritus of the Council of State, Alessandro Pajno, and is composed of forty-nine members who have been chosen from experts with proven professionalism and competence in the film sector and in the pedagogical-educational aspects related to the protection of minors or in social communication. , as well as designated by parental associations and animal protection associations. (HANDLE).
