Law and Regulations

Copenhagen City Court upheld the order from the Danish Gambling Authority (Spillemyndigheden) which will block access to 25 unlicensed gaming websites. Local internet service providers are required now to prevent their customers from visiting accessing 10 igaming sites and 15 skin betting sites. “We use our authority to block websites …

Norway’s government plans to take another step against foreign gambling websites. This time it will be done by restricting media advertisement. Plan was presented by Minister of Culture Trine Skei Grande. Norway’s officials want state media authority „Medietilsysnet” to prevent or obstruct access to gambling advertisements. Media outlets, which would …

Bucharest could relocate its gambling halls to a “neighborhood of gambling” located outside the Romanian capital, if a proposal by a general council survives a vote in the city’s General Council, local news outlet the Romania Insider reports. According to data quoted by local media, the city is home to …

On Wednesday, March 27, the governor approved a law on interactive bets on lottery in West Virginia , which earlier this month signed. This bill will allow five land gaming licensees to offer online poker and casino products to locals. Now West Virginia has replenished the list of states that …

Australian online betting provider, Sportsbet, has been convicted and hit with a fine Aus$10,000 by authorities in New South Wales after posting an illegal gambling advertisement on its website. It comes an investigation by state regulator Liquor & Gaming NSW into an advertisement on the Sportsbet.com.au website on 5 July …

Japanese authorities has confirmed to approve the new regulations for casino resorts, with hopes to open the first resort in Osaka by 2024. Casinos were legalised in 2016 in Japan and another bill was passed in 2018 which would begin the legalisation of integrated resorts. Japan’s prime minister Shinzo Abe …

A parliament of Kosovo has confirmed a draft bill banning gambling activities across the country for a period of 10 years. The move to ban gambling in Kosovo comes after two murders linked to casinos. One of the victims worked at a gambling centre in Suhareka, while the other was …

Latvian capital of Riga are going a second attack on the gaming industry with a draft decree that would close around 200 slot halls and casinos. The first wave of closures saw 42 gambling venues in the historical center of the Latvian capital closed in 2017 although Riga’s fight against …

Swedish regulator Spelinspektionen has suggested new rules to restrict excessive gambling advertising, while also focusing on the formalisation of a cooperation deal with the country’s Konsumentverket consumer agency. The possibility that Sweden may follow these plans is real. It will divide responsibilities between the two bodies, as well as formalise …

Denmark expressed a desire to implement a code of conduct for the gambling industry. It can improve consumer protection and contribute to preventing gambling as entertainment developing into compulsive gambling. The new code is intended towards creating a better gambling environment in terms of consumer protection and also making the …

During last three years in the gaming sector in Kenya, we see unstoppable growth. Sports betting has swept the country like a storm, boosted by the now ubiquitous smartphone. It became a reason that Kenya’s government has announced that it is going to introduce a new tax regime, especially for …

South Korea parliament proposed a law that the minimum age for entering casinos to 21 years from the current 19 has been submitted. The bill, which its sponsors said was aimed at preventing gambling addiction among the country’s youth, would require changes to articles 22 and 28 of the Tourism …

The government approved a series of amendments to gambling laws, one of them to prohibit online gambling adverts to prevent gambling addiction. The bill is aimed at enhancing regulatory restrictions of the gambling sector, which will enable making infatuation with gambling a lot more difficult. The current regulations allow gambling …

Portugal gaming market generated gross gaming revenue of €152.1m in 2018, benefiting from a strong performance during the final quarter of the year. The fourth quarter proved to be the most successful for licensed operators, with revenue at €43.0m, up from €36.5m in the final quarter of 2017. Online casino …

Greece online gambling market continues to grow into the last month, netting gross revenues nearly a third higher then those of whole year before. Gross gaming revenue hit a peak of €356m (£312.6m; $404.3m), a 30% increase year on year. Among them, the 15 registered online gambling companies also earned …

In September, the Oregon Lottery rolled out a mobile app with the goal of adding sports betting in the fall of 2019. Like Montana, Oregon is one of four states that was grandfathered under PASPA. The app is lacking a full range of features. It simply allows lottery customers to …

Vietnam’s residents got an opportunity to gamble in their own country at a brick-and-mortar casino — at least during a three-year test period — at the newly opened Corona Casino on Phu Quoc Island. But there will be restrictions on who can play. The property was built by Phu Quoc …

President of Uganda, Yoweri Kaguta Museveni, has ordered that no new licences should be issued to sports betting companies nor renewing of permits for the existing ones. State Minister of Finance David Bahati, was quoted by the privately-run Daily Monitor portal as confirming that no new licenses will be issued …

The Hellenic Gaming Commission (EEEP) has publishing updated list of rules. The updated draft rules include a number of amendments to the earlier set of regulations that were circulated for consultation in September and October. The regulator is now inviting comment from the gaming industry and other interested parties, though …

Aspire Global, the Malta-based iGaming solutions provider, has said its AG Communications subsidiary is integrated compliant with online gambling laws in Sweden, after being criticised by national regulator Spelinspektionen for failing to comply with a key player protection measure in the country’s iGaming regulations. In December the regulator stated that …