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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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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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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