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TAR Lazio upholds Rome casino licence suspension over operating-hour breaches

Enforcement & compliance

TAR Lazio rejected an appeal against a Rome police decree suspending a concessionaire’s public-security licence over breaches of the city’s operating-hour restrictions for gaming machines. The court said violations recorded between August 2018 and February 2019 met the recurrence requirement, upheld the suspension and dismissed the compensation claim; it also noted that the municipal ordinance had previously been upheld by the Council of State.

The ruling confirms that repeated breaches of local gaming-machine hours can support suspension of a public-security licence.

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