Minister Giuli's Olivetti Plan becomes law: here are all the measures

Minister Alexander Giuli’s DL Cultura , passed last December, becomes law : it is the measure that contains his “Olivetti Plan for Culture,” a program of interventions aimed at fostering the development of culture “as an accessible and integrated common good in the life of communities, while respecting the principle of horizontal subsidiarity,” the text reads. Many objectives set out in the plan: to promote the cultural regeneration of suburbs, inland areas and disadvantaged areas, particularly those characterized by social and economic marginality, urban decay, denatality and depopulation; to promote youth cultural and artistic production; enhance libraries, with their material and digital heritage, as instruments of intellectual and civic education, sociability and connection with the social fabric; promote the dissemination and enjoyment of school libraries and children’s libraries and the removal of obstacles that limit the effective exercise of reading at pre-school age; promote the book publishing industry; protect and enhance the heritage and activities of archives and historical and cultural institutes as custodians of the nation’s history and memory; promote and enhance all performing arts activities; promote and enhance cinema and the audiovisual sector; and promote the digitization of library heritage and digital literacy through education and training paths within library spaces.

To implement this plan, the law converting the decree also introduces a new general-level manager, which will cost the ministry 247,163 euros for 2025 and 296,596 euros for 2026. Let’s look specifically at what the law provides.

Minister Giuli’s plan for culture

There will, meanwhile, becultural cooperation projects withAfrica and the enlarged Mediterranean: the law establishes a special mission unit for cultural cooperation with Africa and the enlarged Mediterranean, which will have guiding functions, will have to promote dialogue between Italian entities and institutions and those of African countries, and will coordinate research and training programs promoted by the MiC. Its cost will be just under 900,000 euros per year.

Space then goes to measures for publishing and bookstores. In particular, the law establishes a fund for the opening of new bookstores by young people under 35 years of age, giving priority to openings in inland and disadvantaged areas or in areas without bookstores or state libraries open to the public. Also to support the digital publishing sector, the MiC establishes a fund (€24.8 million for 2025 and €5.2 for 2026) to be allocated to state libraries open to the public, territorial entities, and cultural institutions identified in accordance with the law (La 534 of Oct. 17, 1996, and La 549 of Dec. 28, 1995) for the purchase of books, including in digital format. Also for the publishing sector, the Ministry establishes for 2025, on an experimental basis, a 10-million-euro fund intended to expand the cultural offerings of printed newspapers: the money will be used in particular to strengthen the pages dedicated to sculpture, entertainment and the audiovisual sector. The manner of allocation will be defined by a special decree of the Minister of Culture in consultation with the Minister of Economy and Finance, after consulting the Department for Information and Publishing of the Presidency of the Council of Ministers.

Other contributions are authorized to celebrate the 25th anniversary of the European Landscape Convention (800,000 euros, one-off) and to ensure the performance of the activities and operation of the National Historical Council (700,000 euros), theItalian Institute for Ancient History (300 thousand euros), the Italian Historical Institute for the Modern and Contemporary Age (400 thousand euros), for the Italian Institute of Numismatics (200 thousand euros) and for the Domus Mazziniana (200 thousand euros): in these cases these are annual contributions. Contributions also for the Shoah Memorial in Milan (300 thousand euros annually, in favor of the Sohah Memorial Foundation) and for the Museum of Contemporary Photography Foundation (500 thousand euros for the year 2025).

A change also concerns the entities that benefit from reimbursements from the bonus for 18-year-olds: entities at which young people can use the Culture Card are obliged to transmit within 90 days the invoice to have the accrued credit recognized. Then there are measures for the simplification of interventions on cultural heritage (specifically, the Superintendencies become contracting stations) and for the cinema and audiovisual sector (for the realization of live performances intended for up to 2,000 participants will be required only a certificate of commencement of activity instead of an authorization, license, non-constitutive concession, permit or nulla osta whose issuance depends solely on the verification of requirements and prerequisites required by law or administrative acts with general content).

Finally, resources are increased for the fund, established with the recent financial maneuver, aimed at the implementation of measures in favor of local authorities, the implementation of interventions in social and socio-health welfare, infrastructure, sports and culture by associations, foundations and entities operating in the territory, the recovery, preservation and maintenance of historical, artistic and architectural heritage as well as the implementation of investments in road, sports, school, hospital, mobility and environmental redevelopment infrastructure: 36.967 million euros granted for 2025, 70.46 for 2026 and 59.78 for 2027 instead of 31.967, 38.7 and 31.38.

Minister Giuli's Olivetti Plan becomes law: here are all the measures

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