To claim that the decline in investments 'triggered' the quotas is deliberately ignoring the reality of the legislative process for such structuring measures.
Governments do not craft policies of such magnitude in impulsive reaction to an annual figure.
Thinking that an 18% drop in Australian audiovisual spending dictated the announcement of new regulations gives a false decision-making power to a single statistic.
For example, the Sapin II law in France, aimed at transparency, did not arise from a single corruption case but from a long-standing political will.