ADM Central Director for Gaming Mario Lollobrigida addressed the opening of the Italian Gaming Expo & Conference in Rome on 14 April. He said regulation, enforcement and player protection must accompany the sector’s digital changes, and called for cooperation between authorities and operators.
Operators face a call to work with ADM on compliance, monitoring and player protection as gambling becomes more digital.
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Stefano De Vita, director general of Fondazione FAIR, called for Italy's gambling debate to move beyond entrenched positions and focus on protecting people. He said both those emphasising social and health risks and those defending the regulated market hold valid points. De Vita argued that player protection should be a shared basis for a different kind of discussion.
Italy's gambling debate has long been marked by strong opposition, with one side treating gambling as a legitimate, regulated entertainment activity and the other stressing its social, health and individual risks. Writing in PressGiochi, Stefano De Vita, director general of Fondazione FAIR, said both perspectives contain elements of truth. The problem arises when the exchange becomes a standoff in which each side defends its position without recognising the other's arguments, he wrote.
At the ADM General Assembly in Rome, games director Mario Lollobrigida said illegal online gambling requires a broader response than blocking websites. He cited the recurrence of illegal sites and called for action against operators and the money flows supporting them; ADM is also developing AI tools to monitor illegal gambling and match-fixing, he said.
Lawyer Luca Giacobbe argued at the SiGMA Central Europe Summit in Rome that Italy’s online gambling rules need greater consistency with those for land-based gambling. He cited overlapping rules and authorities, and said Legislative Decree 41/2024 established responsible-gambling obligations for online operators through concession agreements.
Lawyer Luca Giacobbe, founder of the law firm Giacobbe & Associati, presented his analysis of Italy's responsible-gambling rules at the SiGMA Central Europe Summit in Rome. He spoke on the panel "Bet on Sustainability: What Future-Proof Gaming Looks Like". In that analysis, Legislative Decree 41/2024 is a watershed in the development of responsible-gambling rules in Italy.
Stake Italy national director Fabio Angeli Bufalini called for joint responsible-gambling campaigns involving ADM and the health ministry at Sigma World in Rome. He said the new online rules had not yet been fully implemented and that their effects would become clearer in the future; Stake Italy also plans to propose changes to AGCOM’s infotainment consultation.
Fabio Angeli Bufalini, national director of Stake Italy, spoke at Sigma World in Rome on a panel about the new online gambling regime in Italy one year on. He called for a common approach with ADM and the health ministry on joint campaigns that are not left to a single operator. Bufalini said Stake Italy is investing in a campaign that communicates responsible gambling rather than customer acquisition. He said that without a joint approach the campaigns amount to marketing and are seen as hypocritical by consumers.
Ipsos Doxa and Fondazione FAIR presented research at the Forum 2026 in Rome on Italian public attitudes to responsible gambling. Ipsos president Nando Pagnoncelli said protection should involve institutions, operators, associations, experts and citizens, with commitments translated into practical prevention and consumer-protection measures.
Ipsos Doxa and the Fondazione FAIR presented research on Italian public attitudes to responsible gambling at the second edition of the Forum 2026 in Rome on 14 October, according to the source. Nando Pagnoncelli, president of Ipsos, set out the findings at the event.