New Slots: today the day of truth for the new generation devices
Today is the day of truth for the operators of the field of new. From this morning's meeting between the representatives of the chain - with the leaders of the Federazione di filiera Sistema Gioco Italia di Confindustria – and the State Monopolies, the proposals of technical changes for the AAMS new generation of new slots that must born starting from next year, will make known. That is to say those changes that GiocoNews.it anticipated during the past weeks and that today will be discussed in detail at Piazza Mastai, and the administration can even reveal the other novelties compared with the ones reported in these pages and welcome the comments of the workers of the field. As mentioned, there should be no changes on the gaming criteria, either from the point of view of the 'coin in' nor from that of the pay-out, with the exception of the change of the percentage of minimum winning, decreased from 75 to 74 percent of the stakes, already required by the regulations from next January 1, 2013. But the innovations provided by AAMS for the next generation of new slots will create a real new production, also abandoning the hypotesis of updating or conversion of existing 6a paragraph machines.
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Among the most important novelties, we want to remember: the introduction of the health insurance card reader that will allow the control of the age of players, in addition to the system 'to encrypt' the devices into the equipment with the aim of making them inviolable machines, or at least, raising the 'armor' level and discourage breaking. But it woun't be the only novelties. On the contrary, the new slots will have more security systems that will radically change the production (at least two other important changes in the first draft of the AAMS document), with the obvious consequence that the updating of the old slots that a lot of people supposed to make less expensive the generation change, won't be feasible anymore.
The shift to the 'new slots 3', however, will be probably like the previous one between the paragraph 6 and paragraph 6a machines, with a well defined timing for the 'end' of existing products, together with the introduction of the new machines on the market. Probably the new approvals will start from 1 January 2013, with the aim of taking place at the same time the arrival of new technologies with the introduction of new winning percentage already fixed by the previous decree. But everything depends on the bureaucratic course that will start in the coming days, with the decree of technical changes that will be examined by the European Commission for a period of stand still of at least 30 days, within which the Commission itself and the other Member States can present their possible objections.
THE TIME NEEDED FOR THE ARRIVAL OF NEW SLOTS - According to what some ministerial sources tell to GiocoNews.it, the draft of the decree would leave for Brussels in the first half of May: that is to say later that the Monopolies will submit the not yet provisional text to the representatives of the chain, with the general meeting about this specific subject set for the first few days of next month, when AAMS will receive a delegation of the Federazione della filiera Gioco Italia di Confindustria. At the moment there is only a first draft of the text, resulted from the various consultations between the State Monopolies, Sogei and police force that must control the field. And in a country where it seems that conciliation has been overcame by new political logics, we hope that it is not only an informative meeting but also a constructive one.