Stake Italy says revised concession regime leaves 52 licensed domains

Stake Italia national director Fabio Angeli Bufalini said the impact of Italy's new online gambling concession regime would be clearer once its technical rules are fully implemented. He described the first year as a transition and cited 46 companies and 52 authorised domains, compared with more than 300 previously.

Stake is among the international operators that entered the Italian online gambling market through the new concession allocation procedure, and the concrete effects of the new regime can only be assessed once the new technical rules are fully applied, Fabio Angeli Bufalini, national director of Stake Italia, said at a panel on the regime a year after its introduction. The first year should be treated as a transition because a significant part of the regulatory changes has yet to take full effect, he said, pointing to the period after 15 February as an important step for understanding the impact of the changes.