ADM’s Remote Gambling Office is scheduled to meet online gambling concessionaires on 9 March to discuss draft rules for skill games, fixed-odds games of chance and non-tournament card games. The concessionaires are expected to submit comments as part of the implementation of Italy’s online gambling reform.
The draft rules could shape requirements for several online gambling verticals in Italy.
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Antonio Giuliani, head of ADM’s remote gambling and betting office, discussed Italy’s advertising ban and the regulator’s relationship with licensed operators at an industry event on 3 November. He described the relationship as collaborative and said new technical rules for online gambling are intended to support security and certification, not simply increase state control.
Antonio Giuliani, director of the remote gaming and betting office at the Agenzia delle Dogane e dei Monopoli (ADM), spoke at an IMGL masterclass on eight years of Italy's gambling advertising ban. Giuliani said the advertising ban sometimes does not help licensed operators. The ban was introduced in Italy in 2018. He added that the ban came as a response to an excess.
Antonio Giuliani, director of ADM’s remote gambling and betting office, said operators should take care not to cross from information about odds or gambling into promotion. He said forthcoming Agcom guidance is expected to clarify that boundary and also discussed responsible-gambling communications, illegal gambling and online-game technical rules.
Italy's customs and monopolies agency is waiting for new Agcom infotainment guidelines that will set where the Italian model draws the line between information on odds or gambling and promotion, the head of its remote gambling and betting office said at Sigma World in Rome. Antonio Giuliani, who directs that office at the Agenzia delle Dogane e dei Monopoli, urged licensees to work on the question with great care. He spoke on a panel titled for Italy's eight years of experience with the advertising ban.
At FAIR Forum in Rome, Antonio Giuliani of Italy’s Customs and Monopolies Agency set out the objective of developing national responsible gambling guidance with concessionaires. The start of a technical group was announced by director Mario Lollobrigida; Giuliani said the guidance could lead to commitments accepted and developed by operators under their concession agreements.
Italy's Customs and Monopolies Agency (ADM) intends to develop national responsible gambling guidance together with concessionaires, Antonio Giuliani, director of the agency's remote gambling and betting office, said at the second FAIR Foundation Forum in Rome. A national technical working group, whose start was announced by director Mario Lollobrigida, will take the work forward. Giuliani said the aim is to reach guidance shared with concessionaires in the coming months.
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.
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.