Swiss Government Publishes Draft Gaming Act

By Dr. Simon Planzer, Planzer Law

Gaming operators have been eagerly awaiting news from Switzerland for quite a while. Now, the Swiss government finally published the first draft of a new Swiss gaming act. It contains significant changes to the current system, most notably the licensing of online games and the permission of poker tournaments outside of casinos. However, in the current version, only the land-based casino operators already established in Switzerland would be able to legally offer such games. The road to the final version of the gaming act is still long and no doubt will see the influence of various pressure groups. … Continue Reading

Holland Casino: the house does not always win

By Frank Tolboom, Kalff Katz & Franssen

Falling revenues, creditors demanding cost-cutting exercises, substantial redundancies, employees on strike: this is the current reality at state-owned Holland Casino, which was once a cash cow for the Dutch government.

It is no secret that the Dutch government wants to sell the blighted and struggling Holland Casino. Although the privatisation of Holland Casino is on the horizon, it has been pushed back to make way for another piece of regulatory reform, the introduction of a
remote gaming licensing system, which receives priority treatment.

Read the full article in iNTERGAMING here

The briefing: Dutch bill notified to Brussels

By Younes Moussaoui, Associate at Kalff Katz & Franssen

In our continuing series on emerging remote gaming legislation in the Netherlands, Younes Moussaoui of Kalff Katz & Franssen provides a detailed update.

On March 5, 2014, a revised version of the Dutch remote gaming bill was notified to the European Commission.

This version is the result of a public consultation of the draft remote gaming bill (“consultation text”) in the summer of 2013 and the approximately 90 received contributions from both national and international stakeholders.

Read the full article in iNTERGAMING here.

Chambers Global: All GamingLaw.eu founder awarded again in 2014

Chambers & Partners decided that Quirino Mancini, Santiago Asensi, Justin Franssen and Wulf Hambach are awarded again for Chambers Global in 2014.

Here are the Chambers Global Commentaries: … Continue Reading

Frm. President of the German Federal Constitutional Court, Prof Dr. Dres. h.c. Hans-Jürgen Papier: Foreword to the new handbook for judges on German Gaming Law

Kommentar zum Glücks- und Gewinnspielrecht in den Medien (Commentary on Betting and Gaming Law in the Media)

Source: Kommentar zum Glücks- und Gewinnspielrecht in den Medien, 1^st edition 2014, published by C. H. Beck, Munich

No other area of public law has experienced a similarly far-reaching and rapid development in recent years as has the field of betting and gaming law, not least including, above all, the law governing sports bets. This was due to a variety of reasons, based in part on technological development, but also on legal considerations, under aspects of EU law as well as constitutional law. Online media and the offers contained in these media naturally are no longer constrained by national borders, and in particular, not by the state borders within the federalist structure of Germany. … Continue Reading