TAR Lazio suspended orders requiring a bingo concessionaire to pay the full annual fee and rejecting its request for provisional compensation, according to reports. The court cited a risk to the concession if payment was not made and scheduled a hearing on the merits for 20 October 2026.
The interim ruling could affect the concessionaire’s fee obligations and its continued bingo licence while the case proceeds.
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TAR Lazio annulled ADM acts requiring a bingo concessionaire to pay a charge increased by 15% for the 2023–2024 extension period, according to a judgment published on 11 May 2026. The court relied on EU law concerning concession extensions without a new tender; the source says operators must still pay an indemnity, with the amount to be determined rather than imposed as a uniform fixed charge.
TAR Lazio ruled in two cases that the Italian Customs and Monopolies Agency’s acts implementing paid extensions of bingo concessions for 2023-2024 were invalid. The court annulled the relevant notices and said ADM must recalculate compensation using operators’ actual revenues, benefits and costs.
The TAR Sicilia, Catania section, ruled on 22 October 2026 that it lacked jurisdiction over a concessionaire's challenge to ADM's revocation of a lotto collection concession for late payment of proceeds. The case, which also concerns a €2,850 partial call on a surety policy and forfeiture of the deposit, can be refiled before the TAR Lazio.
The TAR Sicilia, Catania section, has ruled that it lacks jurisdiction over a dispute concerning the revocation of a lotto collection concession, according to a PressGiochi report. The revocation was issued by the Agenzia delle Dogane e dei Monopoli (ADM) over late payment of proceeds. The decision is contained in an order issued on 22 October 2026 by the Fourth Section of the Sicilian administrative court, in proceedings brought by a concessionaire against ADM's Direzione Territoriale Sicilia. The case can be refiled before the TAR Lazio, which the court identified as competent for this type of dispute.
The Lazio Regional Administrative Court rejected a concessionaire’s challenge to the provisional Bingo concession fee set by Italy’s Customs and Monopolies Agency (ADM). The uniform fee is €2,800 per month for the period from 1 January 2025 to 31 December 2026, pending a final calculation; the court said the temporary measure was permissible while the agency gathers evidence.
Italy’s Council of State granted an operator’s interim request on 26 October 2026, suspending the enforceability of a Lazio Regional Administrative Court ruling over minimum distances from sensitive sites for AWP machines at an existing business in Cave. The court cited a risk of serious, irreparable harm while the dispute proceeds; the underlying case concerns a refusal by the XI Comunità Montana to authorise the machines, and the final decision remains pending.
Italy's Council of State has granted an interim request from a business operator and suspended the enforceability of a ruling by the Lazio Regional Administrative Court on minimum distances from sensitive sites for AWP gaming machines installed at an existing commercial business. In an order published on 26 October 2026, the Fourth Section suspended the enforceability of Lazio Regional Administrative Court judgment 14898/2026, finding an imminent risk of serious and irreparable harm to the operator while the dispute awaits a final decision.