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Online Casino Regulations In Germany

Recent changes to the legal situation in the German market have significantly impacted the online gambling experience for players in the region. As of October 15th, 2020, all German states (except for Schleswig Holstein) have signed the German Interstate Treaty on Gambling. (ISTG), with a total of 15 states on board. These regulations, which came…
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German Gambling Regulator Adds NetBet to White List

Image Source: Shutterstock.com In different jurisdictions, gambling regulators monitor gambling activities that can be a lottery, online casinos, sports betting or keno, among others. As regulated gambling activities, they bring tax revenue while a regulator is usually in charge of licensing and monitoring the compliance of the operators to the…
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Lowen Play Received Online Casino License in Germany

German arcade gaming group Lowen Play digital GmbH became one of the few local operators to obtain a license from the Saxony-Anhalt State Administration Office to operate virtual slot machines. The permission issued by the national gambling regulator in Germany allowed Lowen Play to offer its customers online slot machine games under its Lowen Play…
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Löwen Play receives gambling license for virtual slot games in Germany

Löwen Play digital GmbH has received a license to operate virtual slot games from the Saxony-Anhalt State Administration Office. This makes the company one of a small number of licensees based in Germany. The offer under the Löwen Play Online brand can be found at www.loewen-play.de. The Löwen Play brand is known from the land-based arcade business…
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SkillOnNet and bet-at-home secure latest German online slot licences

SkillOnNet and bet-at-home have become the latest operators to be granted approval from the State Administrative Office of Saxony-Anhalt to offer online slot games to players in Germany. SkillOnNet has been approved to launch online slots via 40 brands, although the company's main focus will initially be its flagship DrueckGluek.de site, which has…
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Updates in iGaming and Gambling Legislation in Germany

Is there a gloomy forecast for Germany's gambling industry? Due to significant delays and shifts, the German betting industry has been clouded by uncertainty in recent years. Sixteen German federal governments signed a gambling treaty in 2012 intending to introduce sports betting to the online casino industry. Learn about the difficulties facing…
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Updates in iGaming and Gambling Legislation in Germany
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State-Owned Sächsische Spielbanken Receives Online Slot Machines License

The administration office of the German state Saxony-Anhalt has given an online slot machine license to state-owned land-based casino operator Sächsische Spielbanken. Thus, the operator has become the first state-owned company to receive such a license. Sächsische Spielbanken has become the 13 gambling operator in Germany to receive a license…
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Gauselmann Group Granted Licence for Virtual Slots in Germany

The Gauselmann Group is one of the first providers to be granted a licence to operate virtual slot-machine games in Germany. Since the beginning of August, the Eastern Westphalian company has been authorised to offer its popular and successful slot-machine games online in Germany under the domain www.merkur-spiel.de and thus legally provide…
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Gauselmann Group Granted Licence for Virtual Slots in Germany
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BluBet Approved for Virtual Slots in Germany

Gambling and sports betting brand BluBet has been approved to operate virtual slot games in Germany. The company received the virtual slot machine license from the State Administrative Office of Saxony-Anhalt and will now be able to diversify its offer in the country. The license approval is welcome news for BluBet as its parent company, Novo…
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Novo Interactive obtains German licence for BluBet slot games

The State Administrative Office of Saxony-Anhalt has granted Novo Interactive subsidiary BluBet Operations licence approval for the operation of virtual slot machine games in Germany. Novo Interactive operates the Novoline online platform, offering a range of virtual slot games from a variety of developers. The licence approval marks BluBet as one…
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SlotMagie And Merkur Receive Slot Machine Licenses in Germany

Germany is expanding the number of licenses available for slot machine operators from three to five. SlotMagie and Merkur are entering the German market after Mernov, which has been renamed to Deutsche Gesellschaft für Glücksspiel (DGGS), Tipwin and Mybet. Malta-based The Mill Adventure, which operates the website SlotMagie, is the fourth licensee…
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Saxony-Anhalt State Administration Grants Gauselmann Group Slot License

The Gauselmann Group has received a license to offer virtual slot games in Germany The company first applied for the license last July with the Saxony-Anhalt State Administration Office The games will be available under the Merkur Spiel brand Image Source: Shutterstock.com Global, family-run business that creates and distributes slot machines and…
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Gauselmann Group granted licence for virtual slots in Germany

The Gauselmann Group has been given the green light to offer virtual slot machine gaming in Germany. In July 2021, the company filed a licence application with the Saxony-Anhalt State Administration Office, an application which has - a little over one year later - borne fruit. The Gauselmann Group has now received permission to make its virtual…
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Gauselmann Group granted licence for virtual slots in Germany
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Slotegrator reviews the worldwide trend of gambling legalisation

More and more countries are coming to the conclusion that regulating igaming makes infinitely more sense than trying to ban it. Government authorities around the world are waking up to the fact that prohibiting gambling simply creates the perfect conditions for the black market to thrive, fails to protect players, and deprives the national budget…
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DSWV Urges GGL to Immediately Safeguard Germany’s Online Gambling Marketplace Against “Unlicensed Threats”

German sports betting trade association Der Deutsche Sportwettenverband (DSWV) has urged the new federal gambling regulator Glücksspielbehörde der Länder (GGL) to immediately safeguard Germany's online gambling marketplace against "unlicensed threats". Last week, the GGL formally took charge of the regulatory supervision of GlüNeuRStv, Germany's…
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DSWV Urges GGL to Immediately Safeguard Germany’s Online Gambling Marketplace Against “Unlicensed Threats”
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Germany’s New Federal Gambling Regulator Is Ready to Get Down to Business

As previously announced, Germany's Saxony-Anhalt State Administration Office has been replaced by die Glücksspielbehörde (GGL) effective today, July 1. The new body is now the official gambling regulator in the country, taking over from the previous decentralized system exactly one year after the country launched the legal market for online…
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Germany’s New Federal Gambling Regulator Is Ready to Get Down to Business
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The first nation-wide online slot casinos for Germany may open June 1

The first federally licensed online slot casinos could launch in Germany as soon as June 1 according to one of the sites that were recently announced as a licensee. JackpotPiraten.de and BingBong.de are both sites owned by Gauselmann Group subsidiary, Mernov Betriebsgesellschaft mbH. The announcement first appeared on the website of the German…
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In review: licensing and taxation of gambling activities in Germany

i Legislation and jurisprudence As explained in Section I.i, the basic legal framework for gambling in Germany is the Interstate Treaty 2021, which was introduced on 1 July 2021 and marks the fourth attempt of the German states to create uniform and EU-law-compliant gambling regulation. The first amendment of the Interstate Treaty took place in…
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In review: licensing and taxation of gambling activities in Germany
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Germany gaming regulators approve Mernov MBH for slot gaming

Germany has awarded its first online slot license. The Ministry of the Interior and Sports has approved Mernov Betriebsgesellschaft MBH as the first operator for online slot gaming licensing since the passage of the Fourth Interstate Gambling Treaty (GlüNeuRStv). The Bundesländer of Saxony-Anhalt is the interim regulator of the new regime. The…
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German Court Awards €12,000 in Suit Against Online Casino

The High Court of Frankfurt in Germany has ruled that an online casino customer can recoup roughly €12000 ($12775) in losses incurred while playing. claimed that the losses were incurred in 2017 As first reported by German magazine Spiegel, a man from the Hesse region cited problem-gambling laws in his suit. He claimed that the losses were incurred…
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German Court Awards €12,000 in Suit Against Online Casino
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More German woes as Frankfurt court backs gambler’s claim against online casino losses

A flood of lawsuits could be on the horizon for German online gambling incumbents, as the High Court of Frankfurt supports a ruling that an online casino customer was entitled to reclaim losses. Brought to light by German weekly news magazine Spiegel, a gambler from the region of Hesse had made a claim against a'Malta-based operator'declaring that…
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Regulatory Differences Between Various Markets

Online gambling came into existence in 1996, but over the past decade entered the mainstream consciousness, and in the last few years, it sky-rocketed in popularity. In 2023, the global gaming market should start pulling in annual revenues of close to $93 billion, or $27 billion more than its 2020 figure. Hence, as this pastime becomes more widely…
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Germany: New gambling advertising rules

Dr Joerg Hofmann, Partner at Melchers Law, follows up his recent GI Huddle appearance with his second Gambling Insider column - which focuses on gambling advertising in Germany. Since the beginning of the sports betting licensing procedure in January 2020, the topic of "advertising" has caught a lot of attention. This was mainly due to the fact the…
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Website Launched for New German Gambling Regulator

The executive of the German state of Saxony-Anhalt has announced the launch of the website for the country's new federal regulator, Gemeinsamen Glücksspielbehörde der Länder (GGL - The German Federal States' Joint Gambling Authority). On its website, the GGL said that 110 staff will be required by the agency and that it will soon announce 50 new…
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Website Launched for New German Gambling Regulator
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Germany’s New Online Rules And Regulations For Gambling

Germany's gambling has been very strict and complicated. Still, the introduction of the updated Treaty on gambling ("ISTG 2021") on March 12, 2020, gives new licensing possibilities to those in the online gaming industry. This fantastic news will push the current ban on online slot machines and poker that have only been operating out of one state,…
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A list of new online gambling licenses in Germany lacks poker and casino

The German Federal State of Sachsen-Anhalt (Saxony-Anhalt) has released a list of online gambling operators who have applied for and received a license there in accordance with the Fourth State Treaty on Gambling (Glücksspielstaatsvertrag 2021 - GlüStV 2021). Unfortunately for players in the eastern Bundesländer, the whitelist didn't include any…
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Germany: Licensing procedure for online gambling in Germany starts

s of 1 July 2021, the long-awaited Interstate Treaty on Gambling (ISTG) 2021 entered into force across Germany. It includes new licensing possibilities for sports betting, virtual slot machines, and online poker for private operators. Additionally, the ISTG 2021 will include new rules for advertising. Licenses issued under this new regulation will…
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License Procedure for Online Gambling in Germany starts

As of 1 July 2021 a new Interstate Treaty on Gambling (" ISTG 2021 ") will come into force across Germany which includes new licensing possibilities for sports betting, virtual slot machines and online poker for private operators. Licenses issued under this new regulation will be valid in all of Germany. The gambling authority in the federal state…
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