GOOD ONLINE GAMBLING TIDINGS FROM GERMANY
9 November 2007
German court says internet gambling ban an
'impossibility'
The German legislative quagmire on Internet gambling
produced an interesting and positive breakthrough this
week when the Administrative Court of Appeal in the
state of Hessen overturned a ruling by a lower court
prohibiting Austrian online gambling group Bwin from
offering its online services to Germans.
The Court considered especially the practicalities of
the case, according to reports from Thomson Financial,
concluding that the practical impossibility of enforcing
a ban on internet gambling rendered the law for all
intents and purposes "null and void".
Monopolistic policies on gambling, and particularly
online betting have dogged progress in the German market
despite that nation's full membership of the European
Union and its implied obligation to allow free passage
of trade and services to other EU member nations.
The European Commission has been active in pressuring EU
nations such as Germany to comply with the reciprocal
principles of EU trade requirements, going so far as to
threaten European Court of Justice litigation to open up
restrictive markets.
However, Germany's states remain slow to accept the
inevitability of European law, with a meeting of heads
of German States scheduled for later this year which may
seek to prolong lucrative monopolistic policies.
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