At a Codere Italia conference in Cosenza, Antonio Di Noto, ADM’s director for Calabria, described Italy’s concession system and the controls applied to gambling operators. He said oversight involves local authorities, police forces and technical rules, including for online gambling and gaming machines.
Operators must meet concession, technical and local oversight requirements to offer gambling legally in Italy.
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Sogei gaming systems head Daniele Bonanni described how upgraded central systems are enabling more integrated oversight of Italy’s online gambling sector. He said controls introduced since November 2025 have covered gambling transactions, account movements, spending limits and self-exclusion, with central systems beginning operation in September 2026.
Daniele Bonanni, Head of Gaming Systems and Services at Sogei, described how technology for monitoring Italy's online public gambling is moving towards a more integrated model of oversight. He spoke on the panel One Brand, Two Worlds: Responsible Gaming Across Land-Based and Online. The shift is from mainly after-the-event monitoring to an approach that is increasingly predictive, including through the use of artificial intelligence.
Mario Lollobrigida, ADM’s director of games, said the agency targets illegal gambling through site blocking, administrative intelligence, software analysis and work with police. He said ADM also monitors remote gambling and uses tools to analyse problem gambling, while a 2025 decree strengthened sports justice and information-sharing to identify match-fixing.
Codere Italia business development director Marco Zega said at Enada 2026 in Rimini that Italy’s planned land-based gambling tender could create an oligopoly. He warned that this could cause problems for small and medium-sized businesses and workers in the sector, and said the retail and online tenders should have been held together.
Codere Italia’s Marco Zega said Italy’s planned gambling-sector reorganisation should provide clearer, more stable rules while accounting for businesses’ economic sustainability and local networks. He said Codere intends to continue in both online and retail gambling, and cited its participation in the Codere.it concession tender.
Codere Italia institutional affairs and business development director Marco Zega warned that Italy’s planned retail gambling reform could create an oligopolistic market after future tenders. He said high starting bids could concentrate machines in wealthier regions and reduce supply in poorer areas; the reform’s details remain under discussion.