International Gambling Law Summit 2010

From 22/9/2010 au 23/9/2010
International Gambling Law Summit 2010 will take a detailed look at the huge legal and regulatory developments in online and land based gambling across Europe in the next year and beyond. With betting operators such as Unibet and Partygaming recently entering the B2B market and European Member State monopolies opening up their markets there has never been a more important time to get together with your peers and deliberate the future and successfully profit from opportunities arising from new legislation.

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Online Gambling – A Legalised Addiction?

Online Gambling – a legalised addiction? Discussion on France24 with Laurent Maruani (Chairmann of the Marketing Department HEC Business School, Paris) and Thibault Verbiest (Partner, Ulys Law Firm and founder of GamingLaw.eu).

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Harris Hagan April Newsletter

Inside this issue

• Jersey—New Online Gambling Legislation
• Online Poker in Russia
• Gambling News in Brief
• Pool Betting
• Product Placement
• Scratch Cards
• European Update
• Decoder Cards and Football
• Blogs and Chatrooms

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Focus Europe, Germany: On-line flutters

Germany and its federal states have so far adopted an almost puritanical approach to on-line gambling, but, reports Wulf Hambach, pressure is building for legislative reform.

The Interstate Treaty on Gambling (ITG), which came into force at the beginning of January 2008, forms the centre of Germany’s gaming legislation, and has been the trigger for hundreds if not thousands of court cases causing divergent decisions.

The treaty aims at the continuation of the state’s monopoly and a general prohibition of the brokering of on-line games by 2011. To implement this prohibition, the treaty also provides for the issue of suspension orders to German internet service providers.

After having received the draft of the new state treaty, the European Commission started the notification procedure. In March 2007, the EU Commission issued an opinion against Germany in which it determined that the prohibition of the on-line operation and brokerage of gaming was not in compliance with the freedom of services according to Article 49 of the EC treaty. … Continue Reading

New French Gaming Legislation: Requirements Imposed on Operators by the Cahier des Charges

On March 1st, 2010, the ARJEL (the newly-created National Regulatory Authority of the French online gambling market) has issued a Draft Specification Requirements List (Cahier des Charges in French, hereinafter referred to as the “Requirements List”) which provides the reader with useful guidance with respect to the definitive outlook of the Requirements List. It is worth recalling that the goal of the Requirements List is to provide for the conditions which must be fulfilled by online gambling operators willing to obtain a license to offer games of chance to French consumers. It is on the basis of the guidance provided in the aforementioned Requirements List that potential applicants for a license can prepare their licensing application file. … Continue Reading