New Danish Gambling Guide EMEA
Te Danish Gambling Authority has published a responsible gambling guide aimed at licence holders, their employees and other stakeholders
Te guide includes guidelines for and interpretations of how the rules must be met by licence holders and their employees.
DENMARK GOVERNMENT
SPAIN – Despite the Governing Council of Madrid agreeing to a decree that will temporarily suspend the opening of any more gambling venues, President of the Community of Madrid, Isabel Díaz Ayuso, has confirmed that 22 new venues will open before the ban kicks in.
The suspension, which should be approved soon, will only last a year with the executive government using it as an opportunity to study the effects of gambling expansion on the community.
The gambling industry supports 15,000 jobs in Madrid. The 22 new venues are expected to open before the end of the year. Gambling businesses in the region have increased by 125 per cent since 2014, with 678 facilities registered, including bingo halls, casinos and betting shops.
UK – Novomatic Gaming UK will appoint Kevin Temple as Director of Sales in February 2020.
He joins Novomatic Gaming UK from Crown Leisure after several
successful years as sales director of Crown subsidiary Deith Leisure. Temple continues a long career in the gaming industry spanning 35 years, including senior posts at Temple Agencies & Services, MHG, Sega and Deith Leisure. His other activities include Gala Fairydean Rovers Football Club, where he has been actively involved for over six years, starting as coach and rapidly progressing to chairman of the club.
UK – SUZOHAPP is pleased to announce the appointment of Tim Kennedy to the position of Director of Sales, Gaming & Amusement for the United Kingdom, effective immediately.
Mr. Kennedy brings with him over 30 years of sales and technology experience, 16 of those years in commercial delivery within the international gaming and betting markets. He held senior positions at both Bell Fruit Games and Barcrest Group before moving to the sports betting platform provider, OpenBet, where he ran the Retail and Omnichannel divisions. Most recently, Mr. Kennedy served as an advisor for the preeminent international gambling consultancy, Regulus Partners.
Kennedy will be tasked with growing SUZOHAPP’s Gaming & Amusement business throughout the United Kingdom. Leveraging his extensive industry experience and knowledge, he will focus on customer relationship management and development, as well as introducing new product lines to the UK market.
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Spillemyndigheden, the Danish Gambling Authority, has published a guide on responsible gambling. Te guide is aimed at licence holders, their employees and other relevant stakeholders. Te guide is a supplement to the Danish Act on Gambling and the associated executive orders. Te guide includes guidelines for and interpretations of how the rules must be met by licence holders and their employees. In the areas, where it is left to the licence holder to perform a risk assessment, the guide includes instructions as to how the rules can be met.
Highlights include an emphasis that a licence holder’s website or user interface and land- based property’s point of sale must state that it is not allowed for people under the age of 18 to participate in the games. It must inform about responsible gambling and the potential harmful effects of gambling, and the information must be prepared in collaboration with a treatment centre for compulsive gambling. Tey must also provide information about and contact addresses of Danish treatment centres for compulsive gambling.
Te Danish Gambling Authority’s label must be visible to the player at the point of sale. Te
Ghana FA to take action against betting companies
Ghana
Te Ghana Football Association (GFA) has said it will take legal action against any betting companies allowing bets on the Ghanaian Premier League or any of its products. It stressed its status as the owner of all marketing, commercial and all rights associated with the Ghana Premier League, as well as products (other competitions) of the GFA.
Te GFA said it has not authorised any betting company to place betting on the Premier League or any of its products. In a statement, the association said: "Te GFA, in exercising its exclusive right as the owner, organiser, controller and manager of the Ghana
main purpose of the labelling scheme is to create a safe gambling market and help the player to understand which gambling operators are licenced to provide gambling in Denmark.
In terms of self-exclusion, the service must work in a way that ensures that the self- exclusion takes immediate effect, ensuring that the player cannot continue playing after the request of self-exclusion has been made. A service where the player must contact the licence holder, for example by email, will not suffice as the self-exclusion period will not take immediate effect after the request has been made and the player is able to continue gambling until the request is processed.
A licence holder must inform a player who has self-excluded from the licence holders gambling services about counselling and treatment offers for compulsive gamblers at a Danish treatment centre. If the player is from Greenland, the licence holder must inform the player about counselling and treatment offers for compulsive gambling at a Greenlandic treatment centre. Te information must be provided to the player whether the player has opted for short-term, temporary or permanent self-exclusion.
Premier League, wishes to caution all betting companies to desist from placing odds on Ghana Premier League matches without the necessary authorisation from the GFA. Te GFA seriously frowns on such flagrant violation of the marketing and commercial rights of the Ghana Premier League, and will not countenance any ambush marketing on its product.
"By this statement, we strongly warn all betting companies to stop placing bets on the Ghana Premier League or any GFA product without authorisation from the GFA; failing which the Association will take legal action against them without further notice," it added. "Te GFA hereby also wishes to alert the national regulator, the Gaming Commission of Ghana of the illegal activities of their licenced betting companies against the GFA and its members.”
Lichtenstein
Tree of Liechtenstein's four casinos have each been subjected to anonymous, emailed bomb threats. Te casino in Schaanwald, about 200 metres from the border with Austria, has been targeted twice. Te Liechtenstein state police has said that the perpetrators are the same as for a similar threat last Monday. At that time, the agency received an email early in the evening with a bomb threat against a total of three casinos. Te Gran Casino in Bendern and the Admiral Casino in Triesen were also temporarily evacuated, but no explosives were found. Te police don't know who is behind the threats and the motive for it are unclear. Police officers from the city of St. Gallen and Turgau were deployed in early January in addition to the border guard. Tere are a total of four casinos in Liechtenstein
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