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Ruling on the case involving Bwin and Santa Casa, the European Court of Justice laid to rest – possibly for good – any notion of operators being able to rely on one EU licence in order to operate in all 27 markets in the continent, thereby raising the stakes for operators risking non-compliance with national restrictions, and leaving knowledge of local rules a prerequisite for all in the remote gambling sector.

GamblingCompliance’s ‘Market Barriers: A European Online Gambling Study 2009’ snapshots Europe’s online gambling sector at a critical moment in its development, with certain European countries (such as France) moving towards national licensing and regulation of the activity, and others (Germany, Holland) contemplating ever harsher sanctions for those that fail to comply with local laws.

The report cites legislation, much of which is not available in English, and uses primary sources wherever possible from operators, regulators and legal experts on the ground in each jurisdiction.

It contains an update specific to online gambling for every member state of the European Union outlining:

 Prohibitions in place on online gambling.

• Licensing barriers.
• Marketing and advertising barriers.
• Additional barriers such as payment processing bans or ISP blocking and the liabilities they may create.
• State level action such as prosecutions and other enforcement measures.
• Forthcoming legislation and policy movements.
• European level action such as infringement proceedings, reasoned opinions and cases before the European Court of Justice.

Market Barriers: A European Online Gambling Study 2009 is arguably the most informative comparison of the barriers to market entry for cross-border gambling services since the Swiss Institute of Comparative Law report in 2006.

In 2008 the European Parliament’s committee on Internal Market and Consumer Protection commissioned a policy study to underpin a pivotal own-initiative report on the integrity of online gambling. The authors of this study stated:

We relied heavily on GamblingCompliance in preference to searching the websites of all 27 EU Member States. It is a fact that without the services that Gambling Compliance offers it would have been extremely difficult for us to complete this project in the time and within the budget available.

Market Barriers: A European Online Gambling Study 2009 is a timely resource for operators, lawyers, regulators, policy developers and academics seeking clarity on the current trends emerging in the European online gambling market.

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