In reaction to this years´ big rush on its booth at Entertainment Industry in Kiev, AGI has to double the size of the exhibition space for the 2006 exhibition.

FLUXX AG (ISIN DE0005763502) will also be offering its lottery and betting products and services in the Spanish market in the future.

Sydney, Australia – September 27, 2005: IndoPacific Gaming (IPG), a leading distributor of gaming and casino products for the Australia and the Asia-Pacific region, is pleased to announce that it has secured the distribution rights for the new table game, Jackpot Roulette® in Australasia.

As reported in the last edition of Betting-Law-News, a number of complaints have been brought against Germany as well as other member states for infringements of European Law. Under Art. 226 of the EC Treaty the EU Commission is obliged to deal with complaints raised against member states for infringements of the Treaty. The issue of "sports betting / gambling complaints" was raised at a Commission "Infringements Meeting" in early Summer where around 1500 complaints were raised. Due to the number of complaints in other areas, it was decided to discuss this issue at the next quarterly Infringements Meeting.

Besides the gambling provisions, providers of online games must also observe extensive Internet law information requirements. Anyone who is working in the e-commerce area must observe a huge range or regulations on Internet law. For example, in Internet trade, distance sales law can be invoked, which is regulated in the German Civil Code (BGB) and in the BGB-Information Obligation Regulation (BGB-InfoV). The Teleservices Law (Teledienstegesetz) and the data protection provisions such as the Teleservices Data Protection Law (Teledienstedatenschutzgesetz) can also play a role.

Munich, 14.9.2005. Two and a half years ago, Advocate General of the ECJ Siegbert Alber delivered his Opinion in the now legendary “Gambelli” case. On the 15.10.2003 – shortly before the ECJ reached the Gambelli Decision – the Administrative Court of Stuttgart had already referred (case no.: 10 K 1472/05) to Alber. In this decision, which favoured a private sports betting provider, the Court referred to the fact that the Advocate General (in his Opinion of the 13.03.2003) argued that the limitation of the freedom of services guarantee could no longer be justified by overriding reasons of general interest. This is particularly the case against a background of increasingly aggressive advertising by licensed sports betting organisers and state financial interests.

New games turn out to be a box-office success

BETandWIN.com Interactive Entertainment AG today announced that UBS had invited it to give a presentation to institutional investors at the "European Online Gaming Conference" taking place in Las Vegas, on 14 September 2005.

New website of MECN and Rob van der Gaast features regular updates on the privatisation of state-controlled gambling companies.

ISA-CASINOS introduces Attorney at Law Guido Bongers. From now on Guido Bongers will regularly present his publications at ISA-CASINOS. We appreciate his competent contribution to our web-site under the column „Judgements & Publications“ and cordially welcome Guido Bongers.
Survey of trend-setting decisions of German Courts concerning sports betting

On Friday August 19, 2005, Rolf Klug, Board Member of the Gauselmann Group and responsible for the MERKUR International segment, Rolf Falke, CEO of Merkur Casino and Mikhail Volokotkin, CEO of the Latvian DLV Group, determined their future partnership with a cooperation agreement to expand in the Baltic region.

The Gauselmann Group currently runs 40 entertainment centres overseas European countries, 14 alone in the Czech Republic. From these 14 MERKUR CASINOs four are located in the “Golden City” of Prague on the Moldau. Paul Gauselmann would not be the highly successful business man and owner of the worldwide operating concern if he did not have the flair to combine “business with pleasure”.