POLAND STILL BIG ON GAMBLING
7 August 2009
Poles spent the equivalent of $5 billion on
gambling in 2008
Figures released by Poland's Ministry of Finance this
week show that Polish citizens spent the equivalent of
over $5 billion on gambling in 2008, significantly up on
2007's figure of $3.8 billion.
The 42 percent
growth that the number represent make Poland one of the
fastest growing land gambling markets in Europe, with
the slot machine population doubling over the past year
to 46 000 and more to follow.
And the Poles
apparently like slots; revenues from this category of
gaming alone have grown 73.2 percent to $2.7 billion.
Sadly, little progress appears to have been made
on the regulation of online gambling, a topic that has
been under discussion by Polish legislators since
November 2007.
In April 2008 comments by Polish
Finance Minister Marek Kapica suggested that a
regulatory regime for online gambling would be in
position by the second part of 2009 (see previous
InfoPowa report). Kapica opined publicly that Poland
would have to legalise online gambling: "We cannot
control this process anyway and it is better that the
budget at least derives some revenues from it," he said.
At that time the Finance Ministry was reportedly
preparing appropriate legislative changes for approval
by the European Commission as part of the procedures
required of EU member nations.
There have been no
reports on the progress of this initiative since.
Online Casino News Courtesy of
Infopowa
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