davescamp
Dormant account
- Joined
- Dec 21, 2004
- Location
- Milano, Italy
I know this is an international forum, and this thread will be meaningless for most of the users, but i'd like to explain everyone what is happening in Italy.
In the just approved Financial Law for 2006 our Government decided to introduce a new specifical law to protect italian monopoly on gambling market.
According to this law only a very short list of online bookmakers (something like 5 or 6) have the permission to offer their service to italian gamblers, and of course these are companies that decided to obtain special permissions from the Italian state(they are mainly italian bookmakers). All the other companies from january 1st are illegal in Italy. Italian providers have the duty to block the access to illegal sites, the fine for the transgressors goes from 30000 to 180000 euros ( this sounds scary)
This law has already been accused of being against european laws for a free market, infact the official reason added for the law (protect italian people from gambling addiction problems) is inconsistent considering the growing promotional campaigns for italian-based gambling games (Lotto, Totocalcio...).
An important english gambling portal has immeddiatly expressed its dissent from the pages of one of the most important italian newspapers, apparently receiving no answer from the government.
I'm especially interested in the opinions of casino rapresentants (not only european ones), just to know if I have a future as a simple player.
In the just approved Financial Law for 2006 our Government decided to introduce a new specifical law to protect italian monopoly on gambling market.
According to this law only a very short list of online bookmakers (something like 5 or 6) have the permission to offer their service to italian gamblers, and of course these are companies that decided to obtain special permissions from the Italian state(they are mainly italian bookmakers). All the other companies from january 1st are illegal in Italy. Italian providers have the duty to block the access to illegal sites, the fine for the transgressors goes from 30000 to 180000 euros ( this sounds scary)
This law has already been accused of being against european laws for a free market, infact the official reason added for the law (protect italian people from gambling addiction problems) is inconsistent considering the growing promotional campaigns for italian-based gambling games (Lotto, Totocalcio...).
An important english gambling portal has immeddiatly expressed its dissent from the pages of one of the most important italian newspapers, apparently receiving no answer from the government.
I'm especially interested in the opinions of casino rapresentants (not only european ones), just to know if I have a future as a simple player.