The seven companies in the face-to-face field that operated slot machines, video poker and video lottery that went to court two years ago to appeal the controversial decision of the Italian center-left government -which had Matteo Renzi as president at that time-, are on the Congratulations.
And it is that although in the first instance they saw their appeals rejected by the Italian Justice in the Lazio region, now they have received the go-ahead by the Council of State itself, held on August 31, so that it is the European Justice that take the last decision regarding the compensation they are claiming after Renzi's decision to cut by 500 million the funds budgeted and approved for the payment and amortization of their assets.
In this way, Cirsa Italia, Codere Network, Gamenet, NTS Network, Sisal Entertainment and SNAI once again have more than realistic options to recover several hundred million in taxes and the subsequent rejection of the budget items intended to compensate for this new fiscal scenario that accompanied the 2015 Stability Law, signed by the then Minister of Economy, Pier Carlo Padoan.
As reported by
Fortune Italia, the plaintiffs believe that the change in collection policies was greatly detrimental to them as it was a new scenario not raised in the recent bidding process, which is why the operators of these gaming products, available in lounges, bingo halls and establishments Authorities saw their huge investments in licenses turn into a very bad business.
The operators, among which the subsidiaries in Italy of the Spanish companies CIRSA and CODERE stand out, have not given up in all this time and despite the refusal of the Italian administrative justice to attend to their demands, an appeal was made to the Arbitration Court ( TAR) and after a new refusal they went to the Palazzo dei Marescialli where the administrative appeal court is located ... which is the one who has finally found more than enough reasons for the European Court of Strasbourg to have the last word on the case.
Judge Francesco Gambato Spisani, asks the European Court of Justice to answer two questions: firstly, to establish whether it is compatible with Community law "a legislation that reduces bonuses and remuneration only for a limited and specific category of operators. , or only with regard to gambling operators with arcade machines, and not to all operators in the gambling sector "and secondly if" the introduction of legislation is compatible with the principle of European law for the protection of legitimate expectations that for exclusively economic reasons it has reduced the remuneration agreed in a concession contract during its duration between a company and an administration of the Italian State ".
Ultimately, the decision in front of Strasbourg is important: knowing that a European state can unilaterally cut the remuneration provided for by an agreement it has signed with operators who complied with their licenses and the conditions established in the contest.
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