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Legal Market and Public Gaming: The Role of the Industry

  • Hotel Nazionale, Piazza Montecitorio 131 Roma

Opening Remarks

  • Gennaro Schettino, AGIC President
  • Matteo Giuliano Caroli, Associate Dean for Sustainability and Impact, Luiss Business School

Presentation of the Study “Legal Market and Public Gaming: The Role of the Industry”
by Luiss Business School

  • ·Alberto Franco Pozzolo, Full Professor of Political Economy

Economic and Industrial Scenario

  • Alessandro Fontana, Director, Research Department, Confindustria

Fighting Illegality: Defending the Industry and Protecting Consumers

  • Federico Bagnoli Rossi, FAPAV Presidente
  • Giuliano Guinci, Public Affairs, Sustainability & Retail Operations Director, Eurobet Italia
  • Stefano Selli, Vice President, Confindustria Radio Televisioni

Institutional Address

  • Nicola Calandrini, Budget Committee, Italian Senate
  • Dario Damiani, Budget and Industry Committee, Italian Senate
  • Virginio Merola, Finance Committee, Camera dei Deputati
  • Ettore Rosato, Secretary of COPASIR and Member, Defence Committee, Camera dei Deputati

The Committee for the Prevention and Repression of Illegal Gambling and the Protection of Minors (Co.PRe.G.I.): The Role of ADM

  • Claudia Mori, Director, Investigations Office, Anti-Fraud Directorate, Customs and Monopolies Agency (ADM)

The Activity of the Guardia di Finanza in the Gaming Sector

  • Generale B. Michele Esposito, Commander, Special Unit for Revenue Protection and Tax Fraud Repression, Guardia di Finanza

Closing Remarks

  • Mario Lollobrigida, Director of Gaming, Agenzia delle Dogane e dei Monopoli

Moderator: Dr. Fabio Bistoncini, Founder and President, Bistoncini & Partners

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Land-based gaming reform, AGIC: “Essential to end the system of repeated extensions”

15 July 2026

AGIC – Associazione Gioco e Intrattenimento in Concessione, which represents the market’s leading operators – highlighted, in a document presented today in Rome, the critical issues that could arise if the reform is not implemented.

Following an initial phase in which the sector was centrally managed by AAMS, now ADM, Regions and Municipalities have introduced their own regulations in recent years, mainly on public health grounds, restricting the location and opening hours of gaming outlets. This overlap of local rules has created an inconsistent regulatory system which, as also noted by the Council of State, hinders both the planning of the gaming network and the launch of tenders for retail concessions.

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AGIC – Associazione Gioco e Intrattenimento in Concessione, which represents the market’s leading operators – highlighted, in a document presented today in Rome, the critical issues that could arise if the reform is not implemented. Following an initial phase in which the sector was centrally managed by AAMS, now ADM, Regions and Municipalities have introduced their own regulations in recent years, mainly on public health grounds, restricting the location and opening hours of gaming outlets. This overlap of local rules has created an inconsistent regulatory system which, as also noted by the Council of State, hinders both the planning of the gaming network and the launch of tenders for retail concessions.
Addictions: AGIC, data from the Report to Parliament confirm the urgency of effective rules. The underground market grows where there is no legal barrier.
AGIC, the association bringing together the main concession operators in the public gaming sector, expresses strong concern over the data contained in the 2026 Report to Parliament on addiction, which documents an increase in minors’ involvement in gambling — a phenomenon that is by definition illegal, given the ban on access for minors — and a broader spread of behavioural addictions, from digital addiction to online and land-based gambling. The numbers are clear: according to the Report, in 2025, 60% of students gambled at least once in the previous year, with the share of “at-risk” and “problematic” profiles increasing compared with 2024. These are figures that AGIC has no intention of downplaying: they confirm that the problem exists, affects increasingly younger age groups, and requires concrete responses. Precisely for this reason, the Association reiterates a distinction that the Report itself effectively confirms: underage gambling is, by definition, a phenomenon that takes place outside the legal perimeter, often through channels lacking effective age and identity controls.
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