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Emissão de licença para exploração de apostas desportivas à cota, em que o jogador joga contra a entidade exploradora A Comissão de Jogos, em reunião realizada no dia 23 de junho de 2017, deliberou emitir à Sociedade Figueira Praia, sob a marca Casino Portugal, uma licença para a exploração...
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British gamblers lost a record £13.8bn in the year ending September 2016, including an all-time high of £1.82bn on controversial fixed-odds betting terminals (FOBTs). The figures, released by the industry regulator the Gambling Commission, come just weeks before a long-awaited government review of the industry is due to be published. The review has seen...
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Online gambling company 888 is being investigated by the industry regulator, which has the power to strip betting firms of their licence to do business, amid concern over the tools it uses to help problem gamblers. The Gambling Commission is examining 888’s “self-exclusion” regime, a system betting firms use to allow...
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Desde que Portugal aprovou a sua lei de jogos online há dois anos, o organismo responsável pela atividade, o SRIJ, recebeu 19 pedidos e concedeu apenas 6 licenças. De acordo com a Remote Gambling Association (RGA), os altos impostos tornam o mercado ‘pouco atraente’ para os investidores. O organismo...
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Tratando-se de um imposto recente, “não existe um histórico que permita estimar, com segurança, a receita a arrecadar em 2017”, diz o Ministério do Trabalho. A Segurança Social encaixou até agora cerca de 2,6 milhões de euros com o jogo online. Este valor é dirigido ao financiamento da ação...
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An MPs’ report calling for a crackdown on fixed-odds betting terminals, published in the midst of a government review into the controversial machines, has been found to breach parliamentary standards. A cross-party group of politicians, backed by casinos, amusement arcades and pubs, was deemed to have broken the rules four times in...
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O Turismo de Portugal emitiu seis licenças de jogo online em dois anos de regulação. Ao todo recebeu 19 candidaturas de operadores que querem atuar no mercado português. As licenças foram atribuídas à Betclic (duas),à Bet (duas) , uma à Estoril Sol e outra à Pokerstars. Recorde-se que, o...
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Casas de apostas na Internet pediram ao governo que reveja as taxas aplicadas aos valores das apostas. Segundo a RGA, a lei atual não chega para captar jogadores. A Remote Gambling Association (RGA) aproveitou o segundo aniversário da legislação do Jogo Online em Portugal para solicitar ao Governo uma...
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The Macau authorities issued – during the period from May 9, 2016, to April 16 this year – a total of 71 verbal cautions to casino patrons for their alleged violation of an instruction banning use of telephones while at any of the city’s gaming tables, the city’s gaming regulator told GGRAsia...
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PSD quer mudar lei para obrigar clubes a reportar quem são os seus acionistas, sob pena de não poderem ser objeto de apostas e de perderem apoios públicos. Relatórios dos árbitros devem ser públicos. A setores com “particular vulnerabilidade” deve corresponder uma legislação que obrigue a maior transparência, sobretudo...
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THE FEDERAL GOVERNMENT IS POISED TO INTRODUCE NEW LAWS TO BAN GAMBLING ADVERTISING DURING LIVE SPORTING EVENTS AS EARLY AS NEXT WEEK — BUT THE IMMINENT MOVE HAS PROMPTED ANGRY OPPOSITION FROM SPORTING BODIES, WHICH SAY THE MOVE WILL DRAMATICALLY REDUCE FUNDS FOR GRASSROOTS SPORT. The Australian understands that...
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Jeff Sessions, the US Attorney General is reportedly considering the reintroduction of a federal ban on all state-regulated online gambling in the US. Reports in the Huffington Post say that Sessions could consider reintroducing the ban despite a lack of public support and strong opposition from the National Governors...
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O Presidente da República promulgou a “segunda alteração ao regime de responsabilidade penal por comportamentos susceptíveis de afectar a verdade, a lealdade e a correcção da competição e do seu resultado na actividade desportiva”, segundo uma nota colocada no site da Presidência da República. De acordo com a nota,...
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The Prime Minister of Ukraine has accepted a Ministry of Finance letter promising to re-legalise gambling by 2018, almost eight years after it was outlawed. A previous legalisation proposal two years prior failed as operators felt that the tax rates and licensing fees were too high. Thosegambling ban implied...
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The Department of Justice have recently announced that Absolute Poker is to compensate players through a claims process similar to that of Full Tilt, which is part of an ongoing civil complaint settlement following the events of online poker’s “Black Friday” in 2011. In April 2011, the U.S. Department...
Emissão de licença para exploração de apostas desportivas à cota, em que o jogador joga contra a entidade exploradora A Comissão de Jogos, em reunião realizada no dia 23 de junho de 2017, deliberou emitir à Sociedade Figueira Praia, sob a marca Casino Portugal, uma licença para a exploração...
British gamblers lost a record £13.8bn in the year ending September 2016, including an all-time high of £1.82bn on controversial fixed-odds betting terminals (FOBTs). The figures, released by the industry regulator the Gambling Commission, come just weeks before a long-awaited government review of the industry is due to be published. The review has seen...
Tratando-se de um imposto recente, “não existe um histórico que permita estimar, com segurança, a receita a arrecadar em 2017”, diz o Ministério do Trabalho. A Segurança Social encaixou até agora cerca de 2,6 milhões de euros com o jogo online. Este valor é dirigido ao financiamento da ação...
The Macau authorities issued – during the period from May 9, 2016, to April 16 this year – a total of 71 verbal cautions to casino patrons for their alleged violation of an instruction banning use of telephones while at any of the city’s gaming tables, the city’s gaming regulator told GGRAsia...
PSD quer mudar lei para obrigar clubes a reportar quem são os seus acionistas, sob pena de não poderem ser objeto de apostas e de perderem apoios públicos. Relatórios dos árbitros devem ser públicos. A setores com “particular vulnerabilidade” deve corresponder uma legislação que obrigue a maior transparência, sobretudo...
THE FEDERAL GOVERNMENT IS POISED TO INTRODUCE NEW LAWS TO BAN GAMBLING ADVERTISING DURING LIVE SPORTING EVENTS AS EARLY AS NEXT WEEK — BUT THE IMMINENT MOVE HAS PROMPTED ANGRY OPPOSITION FROM SPORTING BODIES, WHICH SAY THE MOVE WILL DRAMATICALLY REDUCE FUNDS FOR GRASSROOTS SPORT. The Australian understands that...
Jeff Sessions, the US Attorney General is reportedly considering the reintroduction of a federal ban on all state-regulated online gambling in the US. Reports in the Huffington Post say that Sessions could consider reintroducing the ban despite a lack of public support and strong opposition from the National Governors...
The Prime Minister of Ukraine has accepted a Ministry of Finance letter promising to re-legalise gambling by 2018, almost eight years after it was outlawed. A previous legalisation proposal two years prior failed as operators felt that the tax rates and licensing fees were too high. Thosegambling ban implied...
