ADM official Antonio Giuliani said the 13 November deadline for online concessionaires to move to the new gambling system remains in place. He said ADM aims to certify each concessionaire’s full system, including interactions between its components.
Online concessionaires face a fixed transition deadline and a system-wide certification objective set out by ADM.
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The European Parliament estimates a proposed online gambling tax could raise €3.9bn a year, according to MEP Danuše Nerudová. The report says the European Commission’s estimate is €1.9bn and reports opposition from several member states; Italy’s ADM online and betting director said agreement on an EU tax or harmonisation was currently impossible.
Antonio Giuliani, ADM's director of online gambling and betting, suggested payment blocking to tackle illegal gambling in Italy at the SBC Summit in Lisbon. He said implementing the approach would require a legislative amendment. Giuliani also said ADM had no plans to regulate B2B providers.
Payment blocking could be a route to limiting illegal gambling in Italy, Antonio Giuliani, director of the online gambling and betting office at the Agenzia delle Dogane e Monopoli (ADM), said at the SBC Summit in Lisbon. According to Giuliani, implementing the approach would require an amendment to the rules.
Antonio Giuliani, head of the online and betting office at Italy’s ADM, said prediction markets should be treated as betting products requiring a gambling licence. Speaking at the SBC Summit in Lisbon, he said European agreement on harmonising online gambling rules or introducing a common tax was currently unlikely, and said Italy would retain limits on eligible betting events.
ADM has published communication protocols for betting concessionaires, remote gambling operators and bingo. The notices, all dated 5 August 2026 and signed by Antonio Giuliani of the remote gambling and betting office, accompany technical documents due to take effect in the first week of September.
Mario Antonelli of the Italian Federation of Tobacco Retailers has urged Italy’s government to accelerate reform of the land-based gambling network. His appeal follows comments by ADM’s online gaming and betting director Antonio Giuliani, who called for progress at a 1 July conference; Antonelli warned that the reform could miss the tax delegation’s deadline.