Italy’s Customs and Monopolies Agency (ADM) set a provisional monthly fee of €2,800 for bingo concessions while the final economic terms are determined. The report says the Lazio Regional Administrative Court had ordered ADM to recalculate the 2025–2026 fee using criteria that were not strictly flat-rate.
The provisional fee sets the current payment level for bingo concession holders while the final terms remain unresolved.
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The Lazio Regional Administrative Court rejected two requests for immediate suspension of revised fees for bingo concession holders in Italy. The Customs and Monopolies Agency set monthly amounts from 3.250 euro to 9mila euro for the provisional extension period from 1 January 2018 to 31 December 2026, based on operator revenue. The court did not rule on the fees’ legality and scheduled a collective hearing for 2 December.
The Lazio Regional Administrative Court has rejected two requests for interim suspension of the revised fee payable by bingo concession holders for the provisional extension of their concessions. With two decrees, the president of the court's Second Section found that the conditions of extreme seriousness and urgency required for a single-judge interim measure were not met. A collective hearing on both appeals is scheduled for the council chamber on 2 December.
The Lazio Regional Administrative Court interrupted Oxford S.r.l.’s appeal concerning the loss of its bingo concession, in an order following a hearing on 22 September 2026. The court acted after Oxford filed a Rome court ruling opening judicial liquidation proceedings against the company; the appeal may be resumed or refiled after notice of the interruption.
The Lazio Regional Administrative Court annulled ADM’s €53,952.74 payment order against a bingo concessionaire for amounts claimed for November 2020 to May 2021. The court said ADM must assess any indemnity using the EU court’s criteria and exclude periods when authorities suspended bingo operations during the Covid emergency.
Italy’s Council of State ruled that fees owed by bingo concessionaires during a technical extension must reflect each operator’s circumstances, rather than uniform flat criteria, the report said. It defined turnover as the value of bingo cards bought from ADM and resold in bingo halls, and said it could not rule in advance on future agency choices about fee thresholds or calculation methods.
The Lazio Regional Administrative Court annulled the Customs and Monopolies Agency’s rules for paid technical extensions of bingo concessions, according to the report. The rules set an annual €108,000 payment per concession and extended concessions to 31 December 2026. The court said operators must still pay compensation, but ADM must calculate it with regard to turnover, benefits and burdens rather than at a uniform fixed rate.