German Betting Licences Set To Miss World Cup Kick Off

By Daniel Macadam

German operators yesterday said that sports-betting licences will not be issued in time for this summer’s football World Cup, with many looking ahead to 2015 instead.

Commercial and state operators alike at a conference in Berlin dismissed any hopes that the coveted 20 licences would be active ahead of kick off in Brazil this June.

“No question. It will not happen,” Heinz-Georg Sundermann, managing director of Lotto Hessen, told GamblingCompliance.

“The World Cup is really not the discussion in Germany for the moment. The discussion is this year or not.” … Continue Reading

Brand-New Springer Publication on European Gambling Law

Highly respected Springer International Publishing is releasing these days a monograph on European Gambling Law. The book “Empirical Views on European Gambling Law and Addiction” provides a comprehensive analysis of and a novel view on gaming law in the EU/EEA.

Dr Simon Planzer, a lecturer in law and gaming lawyer specialising in European and Swiss gaming law authored the book. His work offers a new perspective on gaming at the intersection of law and science.

The book first of all provides an overview of the available statutory law and an exhaustive critical analysis of the voluminous case law of the Court of Justice of the EU and the EFTA Court. In addition, the book offers an empirical perspective by verifying whether key findings in the case law are actually supported by empirical evidence on addiction. The causes and consequences of the Court of Justice’s special approach to gaming services are then explained. … Continue Reading

SPONSORs Sports Gaming Summit

“First Schleswig-Holstein goes it alone, then the E-15 treaty is signed, and finally the Hessian Ministry of the Interior rejects all remaining betting licence applications. Annoyance, uncertainty and a lack of understanding prevails – so what happens now with the licences, new technologies, sponsorship and financing of popular sports? There is an urgent need for discussion. And it is for exactly this reason that the industry will now come together in Berlin.”

This is the content of the SPONSORs Sports Gaming Summit on 31^st March in Berlin in whose context the members of GamingLaw.eu will explicitely discuss the Fantasy League topic.

Quirino, Justin, Santiago and Wulf are covering the panel “The Fantasy League, an international comparison: markets, masses, millions” at 10:35am.

If you wish to register for the Sports Gaming Summit please visit www.sports-gaming-summit.de (only German) or contact Daniel Portz from SPONSORs (+49/40/413300846 or portz@sponsors.de).

See the full english programme here

Gaminglaw.eu congratulates its member Asensi Abogados

Gaminglaw.eu congratulates Asensi Abogados for winning the JDigital e-award 2014 in the category of best service provider in Spain. The first edition of the JDigital  e-awards was celebrated in Madrid last 27th of February. JDigital, which gathers 33 companies related to this sector, is a non-profit organization whose main objective is to protect the interests of the online gambling industry in Spain. At the time of receiving the award, Santiago Asensi, managing partner of Asensi Abogados, dedicated this recognition to “all the clients of the firm that permanently or occasionally have trusted in our services”.

See the official website of JDigital here (in Spanish)

eGaming Review: Q&A to Justin Franssen

by Liam Stoker

Justin Franssen, partner and head of gaming at Dutch law firm Kalf Katzz & Franssen discusses what operators need to
be aware of before entering the Dutch market

See the interview here.