C5 Gambling Technology 2011 / 5th – 6th of April
Date: 5th – 6th of April 2011
Location: Le Méridien Piccadilly, London, UK
Link: http://www.c5-online.com/GamblingTech.htm
By Martin Bjoerck (iGB) Despite years of referrals and rulings, the EU’s top court continues to defer to national judges, leaving operator liability and player-loss claims unresolved across Germany, Austria and beyond. For years, Europe’s gambling industry looked towards Luxembourg in the hope that the European Court of Justice (ECJ) could deliver a decisive answer […]
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Date: 5th – 6th of April 2011
Location: Le Méridien Piccadilly, London, UK
Link: http://www.c5-online.com/GamblingTech.htm
Date: 5th – 7th of July 2011
Location: Madrid, Spain
Link: http://www.terrapinn.com/2011/wges/
By Stephen Carter, published in eGaming Review magazine, issue January 2011, p. 14
20.12.2010
Recent court rulings by the European Court of Justice (ECJ) and German judges has further shaken the fragile foundations of the country’s gaming monopoly based in its State Gambling Treaty.
These ructions began late last year when respective CDU and FDP parliamentary group leaders Hans-Jörn Arp and Wolfgang Kubicki in the German state or Länder of Schleswig-Holstein announced that in 2011 remote gambling operators would be able to obtain online sports betting, casino and poker licences based on “the Danish model” – a 20% gross profit tax – and be able to operate when the current Treaty lapses from 1 January 2012 onwards. (…) … Continue Reading
On November 16, the project of the law on the organization and operation of gambling games for the first time regulating online gaming and betting and declaring illegal and punishing online operations not authorized in Romania has been approved by the Chamber of Deputies (decisional chamber) with 171 votes pro, 1 against and 4 abstentious (176 MP’s present), following a tacit approval by the Senate on the 19th of October. On November 24, the law has been sent to the Romanian Presidency for promulgation. Promulgation is expected any day now.
As forecasted, the law has been approved with very few changes in respect of the criticism of the EC. To the point, the concessions made concern: … Continue Reading
It could hardly be disputed that when it comes to remote gaming (such notion including Internet, mobile and interactive tv), the Italian market is at present the most, and probably also the best, regulated gaming environment across Europe. So much so, that the basic principles of the Italian regulatory model combining the possibility to offer quite a wide range of remote gaming services to the requirement of doing it only and strictly under the scope of a locally-granted licence, have been replicated also across the Alps by other jurisdictions (notably France and Denmark) that recently decided to open up their domestic markets. More European countries are now poised to follow suit in the months to come (Spain for one) although they are understood not to be aiming at copy/pasting the Italian model altogether given also the various peculiarities (highlighted in bold below) of such model whose main features can be summarised as follows … Continue Reading
