Category Archives: European countries

New regulation for Italy Internet betting points

Many were already arrived ‘invitations to provide’ all’Aams and exhortations to monitor what was happening in the opening race of the more than 14mila points betting assigned by Bando Bersani 2006. Now, even Amministrazione Autonoma dei Monopoli di Stato, send a circular calling dealers, the new contractor, to adhere to the provisions in the agreement. [...]

Norwegian ban online gambling - in progress

A new law like UIGEA could be passed in Norway, as Reuters reports.
Rolf Sims, legal adviser to Norway’s Ministry of Culture explained that a new draft law is planned that could make processing of bet payments illegal. A collegue of his - the Norwegian Gaming Board legal adviser Thomas Helgesen explained that the Norwegian “is [...]

Partypoker - also in Danish, Swedish and Finnish

Partypoker has announced a new upgrade to their software, that includes the poker software in the native language of the users from Denmark, Sweden and Finland. Partypoker announced with the same occasion that it will host a 50 000 USD Freeroll, exclusively for nordic players on 22 November 2007 - starting with 14:30 ET [...]

Unibet Chief Executive Peter Nylande arrested in Holland

Mr. Peter Nyland, the director of the Swedish online betting firm Unibet, was arrested on the Amsterdam airport, when he was trying to fly to UK.
The Dutch authorites have claimed that they have a warrant from the French authorities that have accussed Mr. Nylande of breaking French laws that prohibit online gambling. This [...]

Bwin and Betbull will start Madrid betting shop

After bwin impressive four-year $70 million shirt sponsorship deal with the famous Real Madrid Football Club, the company decided to take advantage of the brand development in Spain and, in partnership with Betbull, will start its first shops in the first quarter of 2008.
The duo bettinmg companies takes advantage of the new lax regulation from [...]

Swedish Poker Association (SPA) sues state-owned monopoly Svenska Spel

The two organizations battle is going for the use of the trademark “Swedish Poker Championships”,  a competition already held online and offline.
Both the SPA and Svenska Spel will arrange online championships in November 2007 with a similar name.
SPA says they have trademark on that name -  “It is very shocking that a crown corporation with [...]

Unibet loses lawsuit in Netherlands in Utrecht to De Lotto

An Utrech court has decided that prohibited Unibet gambling proposers by means of its Internet site illegal offer gambling games, among which gambling football paid on Dutch amateur games and games from.
As this Dutch website reportsthe Dutch monopoly operator De Lotto says it has secured a court verdict last week against European online operator Unibet, [...]

Code of conduct for the European gambling industry

The European Interactive Gaming Congress and Expo (EIG) held in October 2007 in Barcelona was the place where a new code of conduct for the european gambling industry was suggested, starting from a worshop discussion started by Microgaming and than joined by GamCare, eCogra, and the RGA that presented the new code of [...]

PMU and Française des jeux will lose their monopolies

According with an interesting article in Liberation, France has already started considering how it will change its national gambling laws in order to comply with the obligations required by the European Commission.
According with new info France has until October 29 to act. But France refuses the principle of mutual recognition, which allows a company [...]

France and Greece need to change their gambling laws by 19 October 2007

This is the new deadline, extended by 2 months, given by the European Commission to France and Greece for a corelation of their laws with the EU principle of free movement of services within the European Union.
Otherwise, a complaint in front the European Court of Justice will be started, as confirmed by Oliver Drewes, a [...]