Spanish gaming news.com reports that the privatization of State managed lotteries and betting in Spain is now closer. This means that the Spain might shortly become a new target for gaming operators that have seen in few years first the opening up of the Italian gaming market and will be shortly see the end of…

The coming into force of the rules governing class actions in Italy has been postponed several times, but finally such regulations  - as amended by Law 23 July 2009 No. 99 - will come into force on 1 January 2010.  This is a considerable change that however will have limited effects since it will be…

After the issue of the new rules governing online bingo , the Italian gaming authority has also set new rules for offline bingo prescribing that:  the applicable taxes will be equal to 11% (previously 20%) of the sale price of bingo cards; and that the amount due to the centralized gaming controller will be 1% (previously up…

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…

As part of a draft law decree aimed at pushing the development of the tourism sector, the Italian Ministry of the Tourism, Ms. Brambilla has filed a proposal allowing the opening of casinos in all the Italian 5 stars hotels. Presently casinos can be found located in Italy only in Venice, Sanremo, Saint Vincent…

EGamingReview reports that the European Commission has given to the Danish Government a month to amend its draft law regulating gaming and betting websites to make it compliant with EU laws. The Danish draft law was originally submitted to the European on 7 July 2009 and the European Commission has now issued…

Live poker tournaments have been recently very successful in Italy.  Italians love playing poker, but most of them cannot afford to reach every week-end one of the 4 casinos that are currently open in Italy. Consequently, poker clubs have been arranging a number of very popular poker tournaments. However, life has never been easy for poker clubs! L…

As anticipated in my previous post , I have spoken today at a very interesting conference at ENADA Roma 2009,  the international fair on amusement and gaming machines.  The topic of the conference was about videolotteries (VLT) that are expected to be launched on the Italian market by the end of the year. The main…