VMW Taxand Annual Gaming Industry Get-together / Friday 1 April 2011
VMW Taxand kindly invites you to join us for the Annual Gaming Industry Get-together to be held on
Friday 1 April 2011 … Continue Reading
VMW Taxand kindly invites you to join us for the Annual Gaming Industry Get-together to be held on
Friday 1 April 2011 … Continue Reading
by Justin Franssen and Frank Tolboom
Things are currently moving rapidly in the Dutch gaming market due to both political and legal developments. The new Dutch government indicated that it might introduce a licensing regime for remote gambling, and very recently a sell-off of state-owned Holland Casino was suggested by the state secretary of finance in Parliament.
January 2011 by Gambling Compliance
There is consensus that the September 2010 European Court of Justice (ECJ) judgments involving the Carmen Media case1 and the combined cases of Markus Stoß are likely to result in significant changes. This is true, not only in Germany, but also in Europe.
Implications for Germany
While the ECJ has mandated change for the regulation of gambling in Germany, the level of change required to achieve a coherent model is yet to be determined. There is an urgent need to end the legal chaos. However, a political solution may be difficult to find, with views divided along party lines among the country’s 16 federal states or Länder. … Continue Reading
By Attorney-at-law Dr. Arthur Stadler and scientific assistant Nicholas Aquilina from our
Austrian co-operation partner Brandl & Talos law firm.
A year and a day after the European Court of Justice (“ECJ”) had ruled on the Portuguese case C-42/07, Liga Portuguesa and only one day after three judgements in German gaming cases (C-316/07 et al, Markus Stoß et al, C-46/08, Carmen Media and C-409/06, Winner Wetten), the ECJ issued its judgement on the Austrian case for a preliminary ruling C-64/08, Engelmann on 9 September 2010. The Court holds that certain provisions in the Austrian Gaming Act and “the total absence of transparency for the purposes of the grant of the concessions” to the Austrian de-facto monopolist casino operator, Casinos Austria AG (“CASAG”), are contrary to EU law. … Continue Reading
Corruption[1] in Sports: the French position
by Alexandre Manasterski and Michael Camilleri
Six months after the enactment of the Law on the Opening Up to Competition and Regulation of the French Online Gambling Market, the French Government entered into the second phase of its scheme. This seeks to limit the potential negative consequences of the liberalisation and the risks of corruption in sport by implementing new rules and procedures. How is corruption in sports understood in France? What is the French answer to sports corruption? … Continue Reading
