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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More than a year after passing their new online gambling laws (June 2010), Danish authorities have been given the thumbs up from the European Commission (“EC”) to go ahead and implement them. On September 22, the EC released a statement proclaiming the laws to be consistent with EU provisions and come 1 January 2012, Denmark...
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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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Last week Germany’s new draft State Treaty on Gaming (“the Treaty”) was ruled incompatible with EU law in a detailed opinion issued by the European Commission (“EC”). This week, we bear witness a great example of what happens when an EU member’s protectionist/prohibitive stance with regard to online gambling doesn’t have the support of the EC....
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Back in September last year the European Court of Justice (“ECJ”) ruled that Germany’s State Gambling Treaty was protectionist in nature and inconsistent with European law. In April this year the German government put forward a new draft Treaty that they hoped could be adopted by all 16 German Länder (states). It wasn’t exactly...
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