Dear Reader, If you found my blog interesting and you will be in London next week, I would love meeting you in person to discuss about Italian gaming law or also just for a chat. I will be in London from the 24th to the 29th of January to attend the Legal…

The draft decree setting out the new regime under which the Italian Gaming Authority will issue new online gaming licenses during the next months also contains interesting “surprises” for gaming operators.  Indeed, the draft decree expressly prohibits the installation of gaming terminals connecting to online gaming websites run by licensees in public places. This kind of…

As a consequence of the next issuance of new gaming licenses by the Italian Gaming Authority, some foreign gaming operators asked me…, what are the benefits of an Italian gaming license? Well, the answer is…: without an Italian gaming license an operator cannot offer its games to Italian residents! Indeed, regardless of the fact…

The Italian Gaming Authority has now issued a Decree governing the so called “system bets” on fixed odd sports events different from horse events and on non-sports events. System bets are a set of fixed odd bets generated combining different results that are contemporaneously validated through a unique receipt of participation. System…

The Italian Gaming Authority has notified to the European Commission the draft decree setting out the new licensing regime that will govern the issue of the new online gaming licenses to the operators willing to enter into the Italian gaming market and that prescribes additional obligations for the current and new licensees. The EU Member…

The Advocate General of the European Court of Justice issued its opinion on the compliance with the European principle of the freedom to provide services of the current Dutch gaming license system which prescribes: that it is prohibited to organise or promote gambling without having obtained a licence for that purpose; and…

In a previous post , we had discussed about the issue of the rules governing the authorization process necessary for the provision of online bingo in Italy. However, the launch of online bingo was still pending since the Italian Gaming Authority had to adapt the rules governing online bingo to the new rules…

The offer of games to Italian residents can be performed only by operators holding an Italian gaming license. The breach of this obligation by operators and companies advertising non-licensed operators is punished with criminal sanctions. Also, since 2007 Italian ISPs are obliged to block the access by Italian residents to non-licensed gaming websites that are…