La proposta del calcio danneggia lo sport. Quell’ 1 per cento in più richiesto dalla FIGC non trova corrispondenza nel quadro normativo nazionale ed europeo di riferimento. Né appare coerente con il modello di finanziamento dello sport, improntato a indipendenza ed equa distribuzione dello stesso. L’articolo è scaricabile al seguente link: Corriere dello Sport Editoriale 15042020
In compliance with the latest Italian Council of Ministers’ Presidency provisions, the new Director of Agenzia delle Dogane e dei Monopoli and the Director of the remote gambling office respectively published two new provisions, with the second one referred to specifically remote gambling. The Director Resolution of this Saturday 21 March 2020 further implemented the … Read more
The bill introducing, among others, the compulsory registration into an official unique Register for all gambling operators active in Italy, subdued to the payment of an annual amount, is now law. The aim of this operators’ listing into an official unique Register – until now limited to the gambling machines sector – is to combat … Read more
Un primo passo verso la regolazione dei provider del gaming online con il Registro unico degli operatori del gioco pubblico L’articolo è scaricabile al seguente link: Il Registro prima del riordino – dicembre 2019
The Italian Government has just issued the Fiscal Law Decree, which is intended to introduce new fiscal measures jointly with the Budget bill for 2020. Not surprisingly, fiscal measures on gambling have also been introduced. One of these has, however, attracted greater attention since it introduces compulsory registration into an official unique Register for all … Read more
With an Open Letter addressed to Mr Giuseppe Conte, current (and former) President of the Council of Ministers in Italy published on one of the most important Italian sports daily Corriere dello Sport, the remote gambling association “LOGiCO – Lega Operatori Gioco su Canale Online” called for remedies for the remote gambling sector. This letter … Read more
On 24 July 2019, the national Communications Authority (‘AGCOM’) has released a Notice to the Government on the Dignity Decree which introduced in 2018 a blanket ban on advertising and sponsorship for gambling in Italy. This Notice starts by AGCOM listing the relevant European and national laws and regulations on gambling advertising, putting into context the … Read more
Article 9 of the so-called Dignity Decree (Decree-Law No. 87, dated 12 July 2018, converted with amendments by Law No. 96 of 9 August 2018) prohibits advertising, sponsorship and all other forms of communications with promotional content relating to gambling. The rationale of the blanket ban is to fight against gambling addiction and to strengthen … Read more
At the end of January 2019, the online poker regulatory authorities of France, Portugal, and Spain released a public statement on the implementation of the agreement concerning online poker liquidity sharing that they signed on 6th July 2017. The fourth signatory to that agreement was the gambling authority of Italy. The purpose of the … Read more
Legal provisions adopted in Italy concerning gambling are quite worrying.
Currently, the Italian Senate is debating another increase of the fiscal levy rate for video lotteries (VLT) and amusement with prizes (AWP) machines (low stakes, low prizes). Under the current government, these gaming machines already had two tax increases: one in July 2018, with the ‘Dignity Decree’, in order to compensate for the loss of revenues expected because of the ban on gambling advertising and sponsorships; and a second one, in December, with the Budget Law for 2019….