Gluecksspiel (GGL) has taken full control of the regulatory duties of Germany’s Fourth Interstate Gambling Treaty (GlüNeuRStv) – assuming its responsibilities as the “common authority for German gambling”.

Yesterday, at a meeting in Halle, representatives of the nation’s 16 federal states met for the last time to dissolve the ‘Gambling Collegium’ a state-sanctioned body which served as GlüNeuRStv regime’s ‘temporary placeholder’ while GGL undertook its completion.

The GGL assumes full responsibility for all regulatory duties for German gambling, including licensing, technical accreditations, penalty enforcements, taxation, and market disputes of the GlüNeuRStv regime.

As a result, Germany ends its fragmented licensing policy as the GGL assumes the responsibility from “transitional federal states of Saxony-Anhalt (online poker/virtual slot machines), Hesse (sports and horse betting), Rhineland-Palatinate (public lotteries), Hamburg (state lotteries) and Lower Saxony (commercial game brokerage)”.