As already discussed in a previous post , any company advertising its products/services, having a website or performing any marketing activity should carefully review its compliance with the regulations governing unfair commercial practices. This is even more true after the issue by the European Commission the Guidance on the Implementation/Application of…
Recentpoker.com reports that the Belgian Parliament has passed a new law on gaming and betting law. The Belgian draft law had been reviewed by the European Commission which had issued a detailed opinion on the bill. The points of the draft law that raised major concerns related to: the requirement for online operators…

Misleading advertisements might cause expensive fines in Italy as a consequence of recent regulatory changes which increased their value.
As anticipated in a previous post , the draft decrees governing Videolotteries and online cash games were under the review of the European Commission for a 3 months โstand stillโ period. Such period is now over and only the Maltese government filed some comments on the decree regulating online cash games that however are not…

Internet law can preserve some interesting issues for websites trying to enforce one-sided clauses in their Ts&Cs against Italian users.
Italy has always been one of the countries with the highest rate of tax evasion. In this context, one of the main problems is that a number of shops, professionals and even companies do not issue receipts on all the purchases performed by their customers and clients. Therefore their โofficialโ turnover is substantially lower than…
The Italian Communications Authority launched on 19 November 2009 an informative review concerning the "Guarantees for consumers and the protection of the competition with reference to VoIP voice services from mobile network and to peer to peer traffic" which will last 120 days. This review is aimed at ascertaining the technical, economic and legal aspects concerning the provision of…
The other day after having lost the tenth online auction because of the Internet connection speed of my smartphone, I started thinking about mobile gaming, mobile payments and how difficult is still to purchase an item on an e-commerce website using a smartphone. Despite the considerable increase of the number of smartphones in Italy (we…
eGaming Review has defined - in a recent report - the Italian market "huge". Indeed - according to the report - the Italian market is expected to become by the end of 2009 the largest European gaming market generating a turnover of โฌ 18.7 bn. Also, these figures are likely to considerably increase in the next years taking into account that the percentage of…
Following a number of discussions on the topic, the revised version of the ePrivacy Directive governing the processing of personal data and the protection of privacy in the electronic communications sector will be shortly adopted by the European Commission. The current proposal prescribes: Mandatory Notification of Personal Data Breaches: communications providers and…