Germany

In a significant development, a German court in Munich has ruled that gamblers who used credit cards to perform gambling activities with an illegal online gambling website need not have to repay the credit card companies for these specific transactions. The court is basically putting the onus checking the...

Legislative framework of gambling regulation ◊ Status: Law stated as at 01-Oct-2016 | Jurisdiction: Germany Contents ♦ Legislative framework of gambling regulation    ◊ Overview    ◊ Definitions of gambling    ◊ Regulatory authorities    ◊ Gambling products ♦ Land-based gambling    ◊ Regulation/licensing ♦ Online gambling    ◊ Regulation/licensing  ...

Lottoland has filed an application to have its own lottery in several German federal states in order to challenge the German lottery monopoly and become the first private lottery operator of a major lottery in the country. The company’s new German lottery system will resembles that of the German...

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The UK’s vote to leave the European Union in a so-called Brexit Referendum might also impact companies that provide gambling services in Germany. Three of the main consequences of Brexit for gambling companies might be: Companies applying for a German gambling license need a registered office in a member...

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A court in Germany has ruled that the 20-license cap on sports betting licenses under the country’s Interstate Treaty on Gambling is illegal, a move that opens up the market to the rest of the European Union. The 5th Chamber of the Administrative Court of Wiesbaden found that the restriction to twenty...

Germany: Change is needed As forecast by legal experts three years ago, the federal licensing procedure in Germany is clearly dead in the water. However, a clear decision by the CJEU reinforcing the recent opinion of the Advocate General in the Ince case is needed to force the other...