21 Oct Better life for gaming licensees
The Italian administrative court of Lazio region held that Italian gaming licensees are not liable for the conduct of their marketing shops, unless they have acted with negligence in monitoring the activity of such shops. Italian gaming law allows gaming operators to enter into agreements with shops only for the marketing of gaming account top up cards and for the distribution and collection of gaming account agreements. These shops (the so called “PDCs”) are strictly prohibited to offer any games to their customers and cannot be involved in any gaming or betting activity. The Italian gaming authority following the breach of the abovementioned ban by a PDC had automatically disconnected the relative licensee from the servers of the Italian gaming...