Report - Part 1 SPORTS BETTING
l Lotteries, land based casinos, online casinos, betting.
l All online products are permitted except roulette, blackjack and baccarat.
l Operators are taxed on 20 percent of gross prof- its.
l Licences are granted for six years and unlimited number granted.
•l Foreign operators are permitted to apply with a place of business in the EU/EEA
l Distribution licences required a bank guarantee of €1m
The first three sports licences were awarded to Betfair, Mybet and Die NordwestLotto. In total a 48 licences were issued – 23 for online casino products (including poker) and 25 for land based and remote sports betting.
It had issued licences to companies including 888Poker, Bet-at-Home, Bet365, Betfair, Bwin, Cashpoint Malta, Ladbrokes, Mybet, Onine Casino Germany, Pokerstars, Tipico and Skill on Net.
Schleswig Holstein licences are valid for six years. However thanks to a change in power and a newly elected government the new leaders decided to include the state in the State Treaty.
With the right legislation it is said the market potential is huge. It is reported that Germany’s GGR for gambling operators is €10.7bn of which Oddset contributed €81m – outnumbered by unregulated market. Some €588m of GGR is from betting shops and €325m from remote sports betting.
Online casinos (although prohibited under the ISTG) generated €357m in the unregulated market and €301m for online poker (2012 figures).
Online betting, casino and poker accounted for €983m of GGR in 2012. Estimations state a gross win of €1.87bn could have been generated from July 2012 to December 2015 IF the market had been open for all products.
But the procedure has come to a standstill thanks to courts stopping licences pending proceedings.
Private enterprises were able to apply for sports betting and lottery licences and companies could apply to operate online.
The tender for the 20 licences was published in August 2012 and legal battles followed. In November 2013 a letter was sent to the remaining
In 2012 Schleswig Holstein, the one state which had declined to enter the Interstate Treaty,
passed its own liberal gambling law (Gaming Reform Act) to
enable online operators to apply for licences.
41 applicants claiming none of them fulfilled the minimum requirements.
In September 2014 a letter was sent announcing the 20 highest ranked applicants but before it could issue licences the ministry was stopped by several court decisions.
To complicate matters further, in 2012 Schleswig Holstein, the one state which had declined to enter the Interstate Treaty, passed its own liberal gambling law (Gaming Reform Act) to enable online operators to apply for licences. This included the following:
However despite this recent inclusion in the State Treaty the licences the state issued remain valid for six years so are valid until 2018 or 2019 when the market will be fully closed.
The EU is now also involved querying the ISTG’s decision to retain the state gambling monopolies saying the treaty is ‘incompatible’ with EU law and in April 2015 the German Sports Advisory Council on the ISTG resigned from its role as advisor to the government on issuing gambling licences to sports betting operators. Delays are now said to be pushing consumers back towards a black market.
At the moment it is stalemate. It is not thought any decision will be made before next year and possibly no sports betting licences will be issued in the near future.
In 2013 the Austrian Sports Betting Company founded Deutsche Sportwetten and entered into a partnership with Deutsche Telekom to provided sports betting in Germany.
In 2015 Deutsche Telekom acquired a 64 per cent stake in Deutsche Sportwetten and since March this year betting customers in Germany have been able to access online the Tipp3 products with a focus on football plus other sports such as tennis, basketball and formula 1.
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