A lot has happened since our last update: On 1 January 2023, the responsibility for the entire gambling licensing process in Germany related to (online) gambling has been transferred to a newly formed “Joint Gambling Supervisory Authority”.
A lot has happened since our last update: On 1 January 2023, the responsibility for the entire gambling licensing process in Germany related to (online) gambling has been transferred to a newly formed “Joint Gambling Supervisory Authority”.
In a ground-breaking decision (matter “Ince” – C-336/14 –), the European Court of Justice (“CJEU”) declared that German criminal authorities must not prosecute intermediaries of sports betting services, as the respective stipulations penalising private operators in Germany are incompliant with EU law.
In einer aktuellen Entscheidung hat der 6. Senat des Verwaltungsgerichtshofs Baden-Württemberg eine Untersagungsverfügung gegen einen privaten Onlineanbieter von Casinospielen, Poker und Sportwetten aufgehoben (Urteil vom 8. September 2015, Az. 6 S 1426/14 unveröffentlicht). Das Gericht hob die Untersagungsverfügung wegen mangelnder Bestimmtheit auf, die auf verschiedene Aspekte gestützt wurde.