Italy’s regulated gambling sector is currently trapped in a “regulatory deadlock” that threatens to expand unregulated gambling activities, industry trade body EGP-FIPE warned the Senate on Tuesday [June 9].
The association presented its concerns before the Constitutional Affairs Committee at a Senate hearing.
EGP-FIPE, which represents operators as part of the Italian Federation of Public Establishments within Confcommercio, flagged that the legal gambling market’s development had been stalled by repeated extensions of national gambling concessions, combined with municipal and regional regulations.
It argued the absence of a cohesive national reform framework had left the sector “frozen”, impeding effective network planning and weakening protective measures aimed at problem gambling.
