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.
The reform’s terms could affect operators’ planning and the viability of retail networks in Italy.
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SAPAR president Sergio D’Angelo said at SiGMA 2026 in Rome that Italy’s budget measures include a 70% payout provision and a PREU reduction for amusement machines. He argued that the measures place pressure on smaller businesses and called for tax burdens to be shared more evenly across legal gambling products.
Sergio D’Angelo, president of the SAPAR association, spoke in Rome at a panel on the Italian public gaming market held as part of SiGMA 2026. He said the budget law contains some positive elements for the amusement machine sector but continues to concentrate the tax burden on a segment that already faces heavy fiscal pressure.
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.
Forza Italia deputy Luciano Ciocchetti told Italy’s Chamber of Deputies that the 2023 tax delegation law already sets a mandate for reforming the public gambling sector. He also said a 2024 law transferred and expanded the previous gambling-addiction observatory’s responsibilities within a broader observatory on pathological and behavioural dependencies.
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.
AGIC, which represents licensed public gambling operators, called for Italy to complete its regulatory reform, particularly for land-based gambling. The association cited a parliamentary report stating that 60% of students gambled at least once in 2025 and that at-risk and problem-gambling profiles had risen from 2024. AGIC said regulated gambling offers tools to identify and address risky behaviour.