Italian gaming bodies address compliance deadlines and player protection

Compliance obligations and player protection featured across Italy’s gaming reports this week. Piedmont requires an eight-hour training course for venues with cash-prize gaming machines, including tobacconists, to be completed by 31 December. Gaming concessionaires also faced 16 October tax deadlines covering September remote gaming, unclaimed betting payments and dormant accounts. ¹²

PressGiochi reported UIF guidance on gambling providers’ anti-money laundering cooperation, including a decline in suspicious transaction reports from 12,000 in 2023 to 9,547 in 2024. Fondazione FAIR scheduled a 19 October webinar on a programme allocating €50,000 to one research project addressing gambling risk prevention, regulation and player protection. ³⁴

Debate over the sector’s rules continued in parliament. A petition submitted to the Senate sought closer review of gambling regulation concerning safety, health and vulnerable people. CNI presented a dossier to the parliamentary intergroup on SMEs, requesting protections for amusement-machine businesses and citing regional and municipal location restrictions. ⁵⁶

Entries cited

1. Piedmont sets training deadline for venues with AWP machines 2026-10-15
2. Italy: gaming concessionaires face 16 October tax deadlines for single tax, lapsed winnings and dormant accounts 2026-10-16
3. PressGiochi reports UIF guidance on AML reporting in Italy’s gambling sector 2026-10-16
4. Fondazione FAIR schedules webinar on €50,000 player protection research call 2026-10-16
5. Petition to Italian Senate seeks review of gambling rules on safety, health and crime 2026-10-16
6. CNI urges Italian parliament to protect small amusement-machine businesses 2026-10-16

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