You’d be forgiven for thinking that the only focus of the EU Parliament right now is how to save the Greece and Italy from bankruptcy. Not so. Today the European Parliament voted in favour of more coordination and common standards with respect to online gambling, adopting the measures recommended in the Creutzmann report. Online gambling...
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Another day, another online gambling ruling in the European Union. This one, handed down by the European Court of Justice (“ECJ”) yesterday, was in relation to bet-at-home.com’s right to offer its online gambling services to Austrians. Backed by the Maltese government, bet-at-home.com contended that their Maltese license was sufficient to allow them to operate in...
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Back in March this year the European Commission (“EC”) released an I-gaming Green Paper seeking stakeholder views on how best to tackle online gambling regulation in the region. The deadline for public responses closed in July and now politicians are faced with the task of considering those views, their own, and plotting a road...
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Looks like the Greek government is going to have to wait a bit longer before they start collecting the 700 million Euro in annual gambling tax revenues they estimate will flow from their regulated I-gaming market. The European Commission (“EC”) yesterday issued a detailed opinion on the suitability of draft laws submitted to them...
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The European Commission (“EC”) have announced that tomorrow they will begin a public consultation process into online gambling services throughout the EU. The announcement was made in this press release on the European Union’s official website. The stated intent of the process is to: “…exhaust a number of questions related to the effects of,...
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If cheers could heard yesterday in the board rooms of companies like Ladbrokes and Bwin (and indeed all major EU net gambling operators), then today those cheers would be drowned out by the sounds of popping champagne corks. On Wednesday the European Court of Justice (“ECJ”) slammed Germany’s prohibitive approach to online gambling ruling...
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The European I-gaming roller coaster ride took another significant turn on Wednesday. The European Court of Justice (“ECJ”) ruled that Germany’s current practice of trying to ban foreign operators while allowing local betting monopolies to aggressively market their product was a clear violation of EU freedom of services provisions. The implication of the ruling...
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It’s rare that a day goes by without some major development in the online gambling regulatory landscape in Europe. The EU consists of almost 30 Member States, all wanting to apply laws consistent with their own cultural and political agendas and understandably protect local operators in the national interest. Then you have the the...
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