Mit großer Spannung hat die glückspielrechtliche Fachwelt seit der Pressemitteilung auf die Urteilsbegründung des Bundesverwaltungsgerichts zu seinem Onlinecasinourteil vom 26.10.2017 gewartet. So sehr, dass noch vor deren öffentlicher Verfügbarkeit nun bereits die ersten Kommentare bei ISA eingehen.
Bern – Der Bundesrat hat in seiner Sitzung vom 2. März 2018 die Vernehmlassung zu den Verordnungen eröffnet, die es zur Umsetzung des neuen Geldspielgesetzes braucht.
Rechtsanwalt Dr. Wulf HambachHambach & Hambach RechtsanwälteHaimhauser Str. 1D – 80802 MünchenTel.: +49 89 389975-50Fax: +49 89 389975-60E-Mail: w.hambach@timelaw.de These two events just don’t fit together: First event: Kiel state parliament, September 2017: The government coalition in Kiel overturns the Second Inter-State Treaty on Gambling (GlüStV) and announces reforms in line with market conditions. Minister […]
Als vor wenigen Tagen in der Poker – Lobby des 888 Online Casinos aufgrund einer technischen Panne für kurze Zeit ein neues Spiel auftauchte und dann wieder verschwand, da sorgte „Flopomania“ sofort für Begeisterung.
The judicial mess relating to the question of legality of online gambling is growing. The District Court of Munich has recently announced in its press release that players, who participate in the unlicensed online gambling in Germany, would render themselves liable to the criminal prosecution. Thereby the Court referred to its judgment of September 26…
The EC today made a number of recommendations that are designed to help Member States provide a high level of consumer protection for online gamblers. These measures follow the adoption of the Action Plan on Online Gambling in October 2012, which aimed to pave the way for a comprehensive framework on…
London/Munich, 15 October 2013 – The key online gambling industry conference EiG in Barcelona just closed its doors last week. MECN‘s researchers published their new Q3 Online Gambling Quarterly report to coincide with the annual industry roundup. This report again covers online gambling industry benchmarks…
The report on online gambling in the internal market prepared by the IMCO committee was adopted today in plenary session by the European Parliament. While the RGA welcomes certain positive aspects of the report, it is disappointing that in places it contains unsubstantiated views about the online gambling sector and these appear to have been…
The Remote Gambling Association has written to the European Commissioner to demand that he acts to prevent anti-competitive reforms to Greek gambling law. The opening of the Greek online gambling market is under threat from amendments which will result in OPAP being gifted an illegal online monopoly against European Union law.
The European Commission has rejected a State aid complaint lodged by a number of Danish land-based gambling operators challenging the lower tax rate to be imposed on online gambling operators via the Danish Gaming Duties Act 2010. The Remote Gambling Association, which has supported the Danish Government’s ability to vary its gambling tax rate where there are clear and justifiable reasons to do so, has provided detailed evidence to the Commission and has welcomed the judgement and its wider implications.
On 3 December 2009 the Belgian Parliament adopted the new Belgian Gaming Act, entered into force on 1 January 2011 even though its implementing provisions (Royal Decrees of execution) had not been adopted given that the Belgian government was outgoing. Further to the new Gaming Act, online gambling licenses may only be issued to land-based operators already operating in Belgium under an A, B or F1 license (the so-called “offline requirement”). They are therefore referred to by the legislator as “supplementary licenses”.
Mit großer Spannung hat die glückspielrechtliche Fachwelt seit der Pressemitteilung auf die Urteilsbegründung des Bundesverwaltungsgerichts zu seinem Onlinecasinourteil vom 26.10.2017 gewartet. So sehr, dass noch vor deren öffentlicher Verfügbarkeit nun bereits die ersten Kommentare bei 
Rechtsanwalt Dr. Wulf HambachHambach & Hambach RechtsanwälteHaimhauser Str. 1D – 80802 MünchenTel.: +49 89 389975-50Fax: +49 89 389975-60E-Mail: w.hambach@timelaw.de These two events just don’t fit together: First event: Kiel state parliament, September 2017: The government coalition in Kiel overturns the Second Inter-State Treaty on Gambling (GlüStV) and announces reforms in line with market conditions. Minister […]