Paraphrase the sentence: As Italian territory is divided into 103 provinces, the number of licences required in order to pursue the activity of extrajudicial debt recovery throughout that territory constitutes an almost insurmountable obstacle for an economic operator from another Member State.
The number of licences needed to carry on extrajudicial debt collection activities in all that territory is a virtually invincible hurdle for an operator in other Member States, since the whole of the territory of Italy is divided over 103 provinces.