Key Takeaways
- The 2014 Blue Book, Italy’s annual report from the Agency for Customs and Monopolies, has finally been produced after an Italian MP demanded its publication during a question in parliament.
- Observers of the remote gaming industry hoping that the data would provide some illumination of market trends will be disappointed in the paucity of data presented and the absolute lack of any commentary on the state of the market in Italy.
The 2014 Blue Book, Italy’s annual report from the Agency for Customs and Monopolies, has finally been produced after an Italian MP demanded its publication during a question in parliament.
MP Paola Binetti wanted the publication because the political debate over amended gambling laws as part of the Delega Fiscale had produced a “wide and deep social debate on the phenomenon of dependency in relation to gaming, as well as its economic interest in relation to tax decree.”
