SectorWire
SearchGet the daily briefing
Menu

Italy’s Council of State allows CTDs to change betting concessionaire without consent

Regulation

Italy’s Council of State rejected a concessionaire’s appeal and upheld a data transmission centre’s ability to move its connection to the national betting totaliser to another concessionaire without the former operator’s consent. The court said the former concessionaire has no right to take part in the administrative migration process or oppose it; contractual disputes belong before civil courts. The decision confirms the earlier ruling of the Lazio Regional Administrative Court, according to the report.

CTDs can transfer their connection to another concessionaire without former operators’ consent, while contractual disputes belong in civil courts.

Request a correction

Keep reading

Regulation

Italy's Council of State upholds ADM's 81-band bingo fee system

Italy's Council of State rejected a bingo concessionaire's compliance action against ADM. In judgment 7525/2026, published on 14 October 2026, the court found the agency's 81-band fee system for technical extensions did not evade an earlier ruling against uniform fees. It also said the earlier judgment set no deadline for new bingo tenders.

Italy's Council of State has rejected a compliance action brought by a bingo concessionaire against the Agenzia delle Dogane e dei Monopoli (ADM) over the recalculation of fees payable during the technical extension regime. In judgment 7525/2026, published on 14 October 2026, the Sixth Section held that the 81-band system introduced by ADM with its determination of 31 July 2026 neither breaches nor circumvents the earlier ruling that required flat fees applying equally to all concessionaires to be replaced. The court dismissed the action and ordered the parties' legal costs to be offset.

Continue reading