Compliance issues of social gaming are still a problem for many operators offering games in Italy. And indeed there are several regulatory issues to take into account.
After months of discussions, the Italian Government has finally adopted the so called Balduzzi decree introducing gambling advertising regulations.
The new season of the international gambling conferences is upcoming and I am happy to inform you that I will be a speaker at the G2E on the 2nd of October in the session dedicated to "VLTs in Europe: Italy Greece and Beyond" and at the EiG on the 17th of October in the session dedicated to …
The Italian Government has just established a task force against tax frauds in the gaming sector whose components are officers of the Ministry of Finance, the Tax Police and some tax agencies. according to the news of today. T he task force will cooperate with banks and financial intermediaries with the purpose of…
The Administrative Court of Lazio Region held that it is not possible to have more than one VLT licensee installing its machines in the same gaming law. In November 2010 AAMS, the Italian gambling authority, had published a bulletin circular stating that it was not possible to install in the same gaming hall VLTs of…
New Italian remote bingo draft regulations have been finally notified to the European Commission after a quite long waiting by the entire market. Italian remote bingo regulations have been subject of relevant discussions during the last years as they are based on land-based regulations and therefore contain a number of restrictions preventing online…
As anticipated , the Italian gambling authority (AAMS) has just launched a call for tenders for the award of 2,000 new betting shop licenses. The requirements for the award of the licenses provide a starting auction price of € 11,000 per license and the entities applying for the license shall…
The European Court of Justice (ECJ) held that in distance contracts the minimum information to be provided to consumers according to the EU Distance Selling Directive cannot be supplied through a mere link as this cannot be deemed to be a "durable medium".
Here is a short post on the recent approval by the Italian gambling authority of fast-fold cash poker regulations. After the pressure from some licensed operators AAMS issued dedicated regulations on fast-fold poker that among others limit to 5,000 the number of players per gaming session and allow players to "enter" different tables at…