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Stadium reimbursements: 9 teams in the Antitrust's sights

The Authority has ascertained that 9 teams (including Juve, Inter, Milan, Lazio and Rome) do not reimburse season tickets and tickets to fans who, due to Covid, cannot go to the stadium

Stadium reimbursements: 9 teams in the Antitrust's sights

Juventus, Inter, Milan, Lazio, Rome, Atalanta, Udinese, Genoa and Cagliari. The Antitrust has established that the stadium season tickets and tickets for individual matches of these nine Serie A clubs contain "unfair terms" that unjustly harm the fans. However, not all cases are the same.

In detail - according to the Authority - Juventus, Inter, Lazio, Rome, Atalanta and Genoa do not recognize consumers' right to obtain a refund for part of the season ticket or single ticket in the event of stadium closure or postponement of the event "caused both by facts attributable to the company and by circumstances that go beyond the responsibility of the latter", as the measures taken by the government due to the Covid-19 pandemic.

As far as Milan and Udinese are concerned, the Antitrust "has ascertained both the vexatious nature of the clauses involved in the proceeding and the removal of the vexatious profiles in the new versions of the contractual conditions adopted after the notices of the start of the proceedings", we read in a note.

Cagliari, on the other hand, “has prepared a new formulation of the clauses suitable for resolving the vexatious profiles contested limited to some profiles. However, the judgment of vexatiousness remains for the clauses that exclude the reimbursement of the admission ticket in cases other than the culpable default by the company”.

The Antitrust has ordered that an extract of the measures be published on the homepage of the websites of the nine companies for 30 consecutive days.

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