“The rules extend to 2024 the possibility granted to the Customs and Monopolies Agency to establish additional weekly draws for the gambling game Lotto and the Superenalotto. The increased revenue from these additional extractions is intended to finance the National Emergency Fund referred to in Article 44 of the Civil Protection Code (Legislative Decree 2 January 2018, No. 1). It should be noted that previously article 21, paragraph 4, of the legislative decree of 1 June 2023, n. 61, in the second period, allocated the greater revenues deriving from the additional weekly extractions to the National Emergency Fund for the financing of interventions in favor of the populations affected by the flood events which occurred starting from 1 May 2023". This is what we read in the dossier "financial profiles” regarding the decree milleproroghe, created by the Budget Service and the Chamber Commission Service.
" technical report states that from a strictly financial point of view, in the year 2022, a tax profit of €599.166.583,25 was recorded for gambling Lotto and equal to 626.988.869,96 euros for the Superena gamelotto. On the basis of these data, for the purposes of preparing the technical report of the original rule, it was estimated that the greater revenue expected from the fourth draw of the Lotto and the Superenalotto in the second half of 2023 they amounted to approximately 45 million euros. The final data - continues the dossier - were in line with the aforementioned forecast, since, making a comparison between the actual data of the July/August/September 2023 quarter and the actual data of the previous quarter of the same year, April/May/June 2023, for the game of Lotto, an increase in tax profit of €16.532.254,49 was detected for the Superena gamelotto an increase in tax profit of €7.744.000 was recorded. Therefore, for the purposes of estimating the financial effects attributable to the measure, it can be considered that the greater tax profit over the course of an entire year, as a result of the fourth weekly draw of the two games in question, could be equal to approximately 97.000.000 euros, equal to the sum of the two aforementioned amounts, referring to a single quarter, multiplied by the 4 quarters that make up a year. However, since the period of collection of the actual data relating to the four weekly draws is short and limited, it is believed that, based on a conservative estimate, the greater annual revenue, starting from 2024, deriving from the holding of the four weekly draws of the games in question, may amount to approximately 50 percent of the aforementioned amount and, therefore, may be equal to at least 48.500.000 euros.
Regarding the quantification profiles, it is noted that the rule in question provides for the extension to the end of 2024 of the regulations introduced by article 21 of the legislative decree of 1 June 2023, n. 61, which recognized for the year 2023 - and for the purpose of financing interventions in favor of the populations affected by the flood events, which occurred starting from 1 May 2023 - the Customs and Monopolies Agency the possibility of establishing additional weekly extractions of the game of Lotto and the game of Superenalotto. The rule specifies that the related increased revenue deriving from this intervention will be allocated to the National Emergency Fund referred to in Article 44 of the Civil Protection Code referred to in Legislative Decree 2 January 2018, n. 1. In this regard, we have no observations to make, since we take note of the quantification proposed by the technical report which appears verifiable on the basis of the data, hypotheses as well as the information elements underlying the report itself", concludes the dossier.
