ICE 2014
Host: Clarion Gaming
Date: 4 – 6 February 2014
Location: ExCel London
Host: C5 Online
Date: 3 February 2014
Location: London
C5’s 4th annual European Online Gaming forum is now an established event in the online gaming calendar, and is the only one to focus specifically on online gaming regulation and regulatory compliance. Based on extensive research with regulators, in-house legal counsel from leading and emerging operators, and the lawyers advising them, the event programme is written exclusively for those responsible for applying for and complying with online gaming licenses.
Key regulators, distinguished in-house counsel and their expert legal advisers from across Europe will help your company advance its key growth strategies by sharing their implementable insights and experiences
Website – www.c5-online.com/eugaming
Discount code – 10% to your members/subscribers, they should quote 633HAM when registering
By Younes Moussaoui, Attorney at Kalff Katz & Franssen
The Dutch ministry of security and justice (“Ministry”) published a proposed bill for consultation to introduce a regulatory framework for the regulation of remote gaming on May 22, 2013. However, many salient practical details are not covered in the proposed bill and the Ministry is currently in the process of establishing secondary legislation that will flesh out such details.
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By Dr. Wulf Hambach, Partner at Hambach & Hambach law firm
Whereas the private land-based casino of Berlin (Novomaticowned, for many years the partner casino of PokerStars European Poker Tour) is celebrating its No. 1 ranking as the strongest casino of Germany in terms of revenue (gross profit in 2012: 84,4 million Euro; annual growth: 8.5%) the Bavarian state casinos are all facing huge problems. For years now, Bavarian liberal and green politicians as well as the Bavarian Supreme Audit Office have been requesting drastic consequences up to and including the closing of individual casinos. However, Bavaria is certainly not the only case. According to the Süddeutsche Zeitung, most German casinos are experiencing a big crisis. “Since 2008, gross gaming revenues have nationwide declined by 42 per cent,” the Chairman of the Federal Association of Private Casinos in Germany, Martin Reeckmann, explains. But why do certain state politicians stubbornly hang on to their casinos, even as modern game behaviour goes in a different direction? As reported by the Süddeutsche Zeitung, the internet in particular provides ways to ‘make big business with poker and casino games – many players migrate there.’
Find the whole article here: WOGLR German casinos struggle
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