Regulating Online Gambling in the EU- Recommendation 2014/478/EU on Player Protection- Where Do We Go From Here?
Host: Kalff Katz & Franssen & Queen Mary University of London
Date: 25 November 2014
Location: Paris, France
Host: Kalff Katz & Franssen & Queen Mary University of London
Date: 25 November 2014
Location: Paris, France
by Daniel Mcadam
Legal experts have warned that in just over two months’ time all EU online gaming operators will be liable for VAT in Germany in the latest setback for companies targeting Europe’s largest economy.
The European Union’s new VAT directive, designed to capture more tax from internet giants such as Amazon and Apple, will change the way the sales tax is collected from where the company is located
By Peter Langenbach
Experts think that payment blocking in the context of online gambling will not be able to be implemented
Potsdam, October 2014. Whilst the Conference of the Minister Presidents of the German Federal States will meet this week to discuss, among other issues, the Inter-State Treaty on Gambling and its implementation in Germany, a series of gambling providers are facing massive repression by the Federal States. The States intend to ban gambling offers on the internet, if necessary by blocking payment transactions – an instrument which, it is remarkable to note, has been advocated by the representatives of the state-run lottery associations, such as Michel Burkert, who plays a leading role in the Deutsche Lotto- und Totoblock, is the manager of Saarland-Sporttoto GmbH, and who wants to prevent transfers of funds to other countries. In plain language: Banks, credit card companies, payment providers are intended to interrupt the monetary flows between players and online gambling providers, even if they are licensed in the EU. This is the widespread theory. … Continue Reading
By David Altaner, GamblingCompliance
The warning letters, which threaten prison sentences, follow dozens of prohibition orders issued by Lower Saxony and other German authorities seeking to shut unlicensed websites.
The effort is similar to German officials’ attempts several years ago to get internet service providers to block websites — efforts that were not successful in the courts, said Munich-based gambling law attorney Wulf Hambach.
By Younes Moussaoui and Justin Franssen, Kalff Katz & Franssen
The third version of the Dutch remote gaming bill and critical Council of State advice were submitted to Parliament in late July. Younes Moussaoui and Justin Franssen of Kalff Katz & Franssen provide an update and analysis for iGaming Business.
On 22 July 2014, the third version of the remote gaming bill, accompanied by very critical advice of the Council of State and the response of the State Secretary to this advice, were submitted to Parliament. The bill has been slightly adjusted in comparison to the second version of the bill published in March 2014. However, the State Secretary did not feel the need to amend several points considered by the Council of State in its review of the bill. Some of these points concern the incompatibility of the bill
with EU law, which will potentially play a significant role during the upcoming debates in Parliament.
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