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At the Greek Gaming Conference 2014 today the RGA will outline its concerns about the Greek online gambling regime and will make the case instead for the introduction of an open, regulated and fairly taxed market that would be to the benefit of both the Government and Greek consumers. The Remote Gambling Association (“the RGA”) has consistently…

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 been challenged by the Remote Gambling Association to intervene to prevent the Greek Government’s plan to extend OPAP’s land based monopoly to online gambling products. The Greek Government has notified the European Commission that it will amend its existing gambling law so that OPAP’s offline monopoly on gambling products is extended to online products…

The complaint focuses on the extension of OPAP’s off line monopoly to online products, including sports betting and other gambling products such as casino and poker. The main arguments are that the Greek Gambling Act allows for the licensing of online gambling operators but the Ministerial Decisions and administrative measures undertaken prevent any operator other than OPAP from being granted a full licence.

The Remote Gambling Association (RGA) has today submitted a complaint to the European Commission about the enforcement measures introduced in Greece to protect the OPAP online gambling monopoly. The RGA believes that they are illegal and unworkable and calls on the Greek Government to regulate an open market in online gambling…

The Court of Justice of the EU delivered today its ruling in the Stanleybet, William Hill & Sportingbet case (Joined Cases C-186/11, C-209/11), which was referred by the Greek Council of State in the context of legal challenges initiated by the three operators against the Greek Government. In its judgment, which echoes the opinion…

he Remote Gambling Association (RGA) has today written to the Greek President, Prime Minister and Minister of Finance to set out the potential legal actions that could be commenced if the Government does not amend the proposed Greek Gambling regime to make it compliant with both EU and domestic Greek law.

The Remote Gambling Association (RGA) has written to the Hellenic Republic Asset Development Fund (HRADF), Deutsche Bank and the Hellenic Bank to notify them of further legal complaints to the European Commission concerning Greece’s unfair and unworkable internet betting and gaming laws. There are now two complaints outstanding with further complaints in preparation.

Der EuGH-Generalanwalt Ján Mazák hat am 20. September 2012 seine Schlußanträge zum griechischen Wettmonopol vorgelegt (verbundene Rs. C-186/11 – Stanleybet u.a. und C-209/11 – Sportingbet). Nach griechischem Recht hat das Unternehmen Organismos prognostikon agonon podosfairou AE, besser bekannt unter der Abkürzung OPAP, das ausschließliche Recht zur Veranstaltung von Glücksspielen.

The Advocate General of the Court of Justice of the EU delivered today his opinion in the Stanleybet, William Hill & Sportingbet case (Joined Cases C-186/11, C-209/11), which was referred by the Greek Council of State in the context of legal challenges initiated by the three operators against the Greek Government. The Advocate General found that the gambling legislation in Greece…

The Remote Gambling Association, representing the largest online gambling operators and software providers in the world, has today lodged a State aid complaint with the European Commission challenging the compatibility of the Greek Government’s new gambling law with EU State aid requirements. The complaint focuses on the favourable tax treatment afforded to the part state-owned gambling operator OPAP’s land-based services in relation to private online gambling operators.