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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On Thursday last week the European Commission (“EC”) kicked off their public consultation process into EU online gambling with the release of a Green Paper setting out the parameters of the process. It’s a 36 pager titled “On-line gambling in the Internal Market“ that you can read in full here. The paper invites responses...
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The latest development in the ever-changing European online gambling regulatory landscape played out last week in Sweden when the European Court of Justice (“ECJ”) lent support to Sweden’s online gambling ban. Sweden are one of the EU countries that take a protectionist approach to net-gambling, seeking to prohibit foreign (including EU licensed) operators while...
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There’s an interesting little legal tussle going on at the moment in Paris, and it involves a couple of the casinos listed on this website. A local casino group is launching legal action against a bunch of online casinos, Unibet and 888.com among them, alleging their current participation in the French market is not...
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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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