With judgment no. 3118 dated 11 April 2025, the Italian Council of State addressed, for the first time, the practical application of the rules on ambush marketing introduced by Law Decree no. 16/2020 (“Urgent measures for the organization and execution of the Milan-Cortina 2026 Winter Olympic and Paralympic Games and the ATP Finals in
New rules against ambush marketing in Italy: a welcome improvement or a missed chance?
In view of the 2026 Milan-Cortina Olympic Games, Italian legislators have been revisiting the legislation currently in place and have brought into force some additional and useful measures to protect official advertisers of the Olympics against the so-called ‘ambush marketing’.
On 13 May 2020, Law 31/2020 came into force amending and converting the Law Decree