(Adnkronos) - Si è svolto a Lecce “In nome della legalità”, l’appuntamento organizzato da Codere Italia per fare il punto sul settore del gioco legale.
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00:00An opportunity to talk about game and rules, an appointment to sensitize and inform about the impact that illegality can have on the economic system of the territories.
00:15In Lecce, Codere, a multinational that operates in the legal game sector, has organized an appointment sponsored by the municipality of Salentino, which in its title contains the meaning of the meeting.
00:26In the name of legality, without rules, there is no safe game.
00:30From here emerged that the collaboration between institutions and operators of the sector is essential to guarantee a responsible game environment and protect the most vulnerable people, as stated by Maria Luisa Greco, legal advisor of the municipality of Lecce.
00:46The commitment is to talk about it, to give information, so that citizens can choose between an offer of legal game and an offer of illegal game, with all the problems it involves, because they can fall into circuits of illegality.
01:06Fundamental becomes the monitoring of the territory, to avoid that there can be scams to the damages of the State and citizens.
01:13Implementing the verifications and making certifications have been some of the activities carried out by the Ministry of Finance.
01:20In fact, during the meeting, it has been reminded that in 2022, at the national level, 22,576 exercises have been checked and 261 websites have been initiated, provided with the necessary authorizations to carry out the activity.
01:40The checks have been increased in the last period, because the administration, both at the central level, that is, at the level of the top authorities, from the point of view of the general command of the body, which is based in Rome,
01:49but also by demultiplying the provisions at the territorial level, has decided to invest more in this specific sector.
01:56The problems are many, not only from the point of view of administrative violations, but also from the point of view of police investigations.
02:04As we have seen in the last period, the recent arrests carried out by the core of the Ministry of Finance confirm the provisions at the beginning of the year at the central level.
02:15It is a sector on which the Ministry of Finance pays great attention and on which it certainly intends to invest in the future.
02:22The gaming sector occupies about 150,000 land in Italy, most of which is obviously occupied by the retail sector.
02:29But the sector has undergone occupational setbacks due to the restrictions imposed by many local entities, such as municipalities.
02:36Marco Zega, director of institutional affairs and business development of Codera Italia, has highlighted this.
02:45The appeal to local entities is to find balanced regulations that take into account everyone's interests in the game,
02:51health interests through the prevention of minor or pathological gambling, but also that of the protection of existing economic activities.
03:03In this sense, the regulations provided by the Puglia region and the municipal administrations that took place here in Lecce are an example.
03:12We hope that even at the national level, the legislator can take into account such experiences.
03:19And now, in a particularly hot phase, because the government is working on the reform of the so-called physical sector,
03:30I repeat, we hope that he can take into account these experiences.