esllou - 11:07 am on Feb 28, 2006 (gmt 0)

Giacomo, I was going by what I had read on this site and many others:

[maltatoday.com.mt...]

The Italian State has declared that this “oscuramento”, to be made effective on Friday 24 February 2006, is intended to protect Italian players from ‘phishing’ and not to protect the Italian Monopoly. Whatever the intention, it is very clear that the Italian Finance Act, which came into force without prior notification to the Commission as foreseen by the ‘Transparency’ Directive 98/34/EC, discriminates against operators which are not licensed in Italy, and violates at least five categories of EU principles, namely, the freedom of establishment and freedom to provide cross-border services as enshrined in Articles 43 and 49 of the EC Treaty and the recent ECJ case law