Italian licensed operators have spent a very nice week-end, the frightening increase in the taxation for casino games, cash poker games and videolotteries has not been included in the so called fiscal decree approved last Friday. We shall monitor the situation in the next months to see whether the…
During the last days everyone has been discussing about the "crazy" potential Italian gaming tax changes and the consequences of the decision of the European Court of Justice on the Costa Cifone case involving the Italian licensing regime. However maybe it was slightly missed the exact scope of the decision. As…
According to rumours the Government is planning to change the tax regime applicable to casino and cash poker games and to introduce stricter measures against the offering of games to Italian players through non-Italian licensed gaming websites. The main changes might involve the tax regime for cash games and casino games switching from a…

Gaming affiliation websites have never been thorough reviews in Italy on the gaming law obligations applicable to them maybe because of the difficulty to enforce Italian court decisions against foreign websites. However, such conduct is regulated and the applicable sanctions are considerably high.

The collection of medical personal data relating to health conditions of patients through the so called electronic health records in cloud databases is recently becoming more and more frequent with the development of the eHealth system, but relevant privacy issues are triggered.
"Documento Programmatico sulla Sicurezza" not required anymore! The Italian Government has approved the law decree aimed at simplifying a number of regulatory obligations including privacy obligations. As part of a broad package of regulations that are intended to reduce bureaucratic obligations for companies, governmental authorities and consumers the Italian Government has also removed the obligation…
AAMS, the Italian gambling authority, has notified to the European Commission the draft decrees regulating betting exchange games and bets on virtual events . These decrees have been long awaited from the approval of the so called Abruzzo Decree in 2009 that set out the tax regime applicable to both games…
The Court of Rome on a case between Google and the Italian TV company, RTI, has issued an interesting decision on liability of Internet Service Providers (ISPs) whose beneficial effects might be considerably affected by the upcoming regulatory developments. RTI had requested the court of Rome to prevent Google from publishing on its blogging platform, Blogger, the images of football…
The privacy-related issues in s ecuritizations have always been a relevant issue. Indeed, Italian law provided that also the data of companies fell under the scope of data protection regulations with the consequential need to comply with privacy policy notifications towards thousands of creditors whose contract has been assigned as part of the secrutizations for instance. But…
With more than 2 years of delay the coming into force of regulations allowing betting operators to offer events different from those set forth in the official AAMS schedule (the so called "palinsesto") and on virtual events seems to be closer. Indeed, the peculiarity of Italian sportsbetting regulations is that operators can offer only…