Gaming Archives | GamingTechLaw by Giulio Coraggio

Italian Administrative Court rules against Italian licensing system

After several years of disputes, the Italian Supreme Administrative Court (the "Consiglio di Stato ") has issued a preliminary ruling in favour of Stanley International ordering the reopening…

Sep 2009

Decrees on VLT and Cash Games under the review of the EC Commission

The Italian gaming authority has sent to the EC Commission the draft decrees regulating (i) videolotteries and (ii) cash games and fixed odd games of chance .…

Sep 2009

Venice Casino up for Sale

According to the press, Ca Vendramin Calergi , the company that manages the Venice Casino, has put on sale its stake in the Casino. Currently a…

Clearer rules, higher sanctions and new opportunities

The rules governing the gaming sector so far were an incredible amount of different rules which were never enough clear making the legal boundaries of the gaming sector sometimes uncertain.…

Time to enter into the Italian Gaming Market

It seems that the Italian Government has understood the enormous potentialities of the gaming market. Following the recent earthquake in the centre of Italy, as part of plan aimed at…

Launch of online bingo

The Italian gaming authority (AAMS) has just issued the regulations governing the online bingo. The operators holding an offline bingo license will be merely required to go through an authorisation…

Ladbrokes puts up on sale its Italian betting shops

The Times Online reports that Ladbrokes, the English bookmaker, has decided to put on sale its 170 Italian betting shops for an estimated £ 50 million. According…

Action plan against unlawful gaming

Life is becoming more and more difficult for gaming and gambling providers in Italy. Indeed, the Parliament has recently approved a law prescribing the implementation of an action plan against…

Videolottery: the finish line is closer!

The Italian Senate has just passed a new law that further regulates the always closer launch of the so called "Videolottery" (VLT) i.e. video terminals to be placed in gaming…

Gaming law developments in Italy

The Italian gaming market will see considerable gaming law changes within the next 6 to 12 months. The coming into force of laws introducing new types of games and the so called videolotteries (VLT) seems to have considerably increased the potentialities of the Italian online and offline gaming market.