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Lazio Regional Administrative Court upholds ADM’s €500m AWP and VLT levy decree

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The Lazio Regional Administrative Court rejected challenges to the ADM decree allocating a €500m contribution among gambling concessions for AWP and VLT machines. In rulings published on 23 February 2026, it upheld allocation by machine numbers and said disputes over concessionaires’ charges to managers belonged in the ordinary courts.

The rulings uphold the machine-count basis for the 2015 levy and direct operators to take allocation disputes to ordinary courts.

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Court of Appeal upholds concessionaire’s claim for AWP levy share

The Court of Appeal rejected a manager’s appeal against a concessionaire’s claim for a share of the levy introduced by Italy’s 2015 Stability Law. It upheld the calculation based on contractual remuneration and the number of machines, and found that the manager’s contract allowed recovery of the share attributed to the venue operator.

The Court of Appeal rejected a manager's appeal against a concessionaire's claim for payment of a share of the extraordinary levy introduced by Italy's 2015 Stability Law, upholding the first-instance decision in full. The court confirmed the concessionaire's right to obtain from the manager the portion of the levy attributable to the chain, setting out the calculation criteria and the role of the contractual agreements, according to the ruling as reported.

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