Gambling Compliance: German Liberalisation Would Quash Illegal Market, Study Says

By David Altaner & Elisa Grabbe

If Germany opened its online gambling model to allow every qualified applicant to get a licence, only 8 percent of players would patronise illegal sites, a researcher said last week.

Opening the market to all capable operators — like Denmark did — would boost tax revenues, keep
jobs in Germany, and improve protection of consumers and players, said Iris Henseler-Unger of WIKConsult, a German consulting group that examines infrastructure.

Henseler-Unger, an economist and former telecommunications regulator, was speaking last week in
Berlin at a conference sponsored by ECO, the Association of the German Internet Industry.

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Gaming Intelligence: Stakeholders see 2018 as year for progress on German gaming legislation

Created: 29 February 2016

While a wide consensus has formed across the German gambling industry, political parties, and media and telecommunications associations regarding the future shape of gambling legislation, there are still clear divides on how this should be achieved.

The European Court of Justice’s recent ruling on Germany’s State Treaty on Gambling has confirmed in everybody’s mind that change is inevitable. The 2012 legislation has been dogged by controversy from the outset. After the process to award the country’s twenty sports betting licences collapsed amid a flurry of legal challenges, the ECJ pilot process has now paved the way for infringement proceedings to be launched.

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Gambling Compliance: German Jackpot Sparks Lottoland Confrontation

by Daniel Macadam

A €14m jackpot won by a German player on Lottoland, the fast-growing secondary lottery website, has prompted criticism from the country’s state-owned lotteries which see the company as an “illegal” competitor.

Gibraltar-based Lottoland announced last week that a customer named Michael from near Dresden had won the prize betting on Germany’s popular 6aus49 lottery. … Continue Reading

Gaming Intelligence: German politicians to debate new regulatory models with international peers

Against the background of recent events, eco – Verband der Internetwirtschaft e.V., will be taking the opportunity during its symposium Fachtagung 2016 to deal with the question as to which reforms will be required for a future-oriented digital gambling legislation to reduce/remove the drawbacks of the outdated Inter-State Treaty on Gambling (GlüStV), to regulate digital providers and to ensure EU conformity.

eco Symposium: The Future of Digital Gambling – New State Control?

Date: 25 February 2016 between 1:30 p.m. and 4:30 p.m.

Location: Kalkscheune Loft, Johannisstr. 2, 10117 Berlin

Gaming Intelligence gives you an insight of what will be discussed in Berlin:

http://www.gamingintelligence.com/news-and-archive/36464-german-politicians-to-debate-new-regulatory-models-with-international-peers

WOGLR: Italy’s new Stability Law 2016: what you need to know

New tax regime for sports betting among the changes

By Quirino Mancini, Partner at Tonucci & Partners

On 21 December 2015 Italy’s Chamber of Deputies approved the 2016 budget that among other things encompasses a profitbased tax regime on sports betting, higher tax rates on slot machines and video lottery terminals (‘VLTs’), a new licensing round and fresh advertising rules. The following paragraphs provide a few snapshots of the most relevant changes.

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