The Riksdag has confirmed that changes will be applied to Sweden’s Gambling Act 2018 to allow licence holders to “process personal data related to legal offences”. Changes were authorised on 28 November to “provide a right for licence holders” to process personal data relating to “legal violations under certain circumstances”. The specific circumstances under which Gambling Act amendments will allow …
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BOS rejects technical terms of credit ban on Swedish gambling
Branschföreningen för Onlinespel (BOS), Sweden’s online gambling trade association, has urged the government to rethink the framework applied to its comprehensive ban on gambling on credit. The measure proposed by the Ministry of Finance will see Sweden adopt an outright ban on all forms of credit applied to gambling transactions. Current laws prohibit all licensed operators from processing credit card …
Read More »Travsport purposes counter tax measures to save Swedish racing
The board of Svensk Travsport, the organiser of Swedish trotting, will present a counter-proposal on gambling taxes to safeguard the future of horse racing in the country. The statement was made by Travsport Chairman, Anders Källström, who detailed anxieties about Swedish racing being lumped into a generic tax band for gambling in 2024. As announced at the end of 2023, …
Read More »Riksdag to review match-fixing data compliance orders with GDPR rules
Sweden’s Riksdag has been ordered to review a ‘memorandum for referral‘ proposing further tightening of gambling laws to protect against match-fixing. Authorized by the government, the memorandum has proposed amendments to Sweden’s Gambling Act of 2018 to allow “gambling licensees the right to process information on infringements related to or suspected of being involved in match-fixing.” The amendment requires the …
Read More »Riksdag obtains bill to correct Sweden Gambling Act protections in 2024
Sweden will implement its new online gambling amendments from 1 April 2024, strengthening consumer protections and increasing fines for AML infringements. During end-of-year proceedings, the government consolidated all gambling amendments into a specific bill, which was then submitted to the Riksdag (Parliament) for legislative authorization. The bill’s agreed amendments correspond to increasing consumer protections, imposing written requirements for telephone sales, …
Read More »Swedish regulator to be assessed following significant market change
The Swedish National Audit Office, Riksrevisionen, has officially begun an audit of Spelinspektionen to assess the effectiveness of the regulator’s authority over the country’s gambling market. In November 2022, the market underwent a significant change after the Riksdag – the country’s highest decision-making assembly – ordered all B2B gambling companies to have a licence with Spelinspektionen by 1 July 2023 …
Read More »Swedish government proposes gambling tax increase in 2024
The Swedish government has announced a proposal within its 2024 budget to increase gambling GGR tax as it believes the country’s market is now steady following legalisation in 2019. From 1 July 2024, Regeringskansliet plans to increase Sweden’s gambling tax from 18 per cent to 22 per cent in hopes of raising an additional SEK 540m (£39.4m) per year. With …
Read More »Sweden adopts new market controls against illegal gambling
Swedish gambling stakeholders have been reminded of the new measures adopted to counter illegal gambling and match-fixing, which have come into force as of 1 July 2023. Q1 saw the Riksdag (parliament) approve new amendments to the Gambling Act (2018) ordered by the Ministry of Finance to enhance Swedish gambling’s market safeguards against criminality and match-fixing. From 1 July, all …
Read More »Riksdag grants Spelinspektionen new surveillance and blocking powers
Sweden’s Riksdag (parliament) has announced that new safer gambling measures and market safeguards will be added to the Swedish Gambling Act as of 1 July 2023. The new measures on safer gambling have been approved following a vote on the latest reforms made by Sweden’s Culture Committee, which put forward its “Healthier and Safer Gambling market recommendations”. From July, Sweden’s …
Read More »Swedish Gambling Minister endorses customer data-sharing proposal for operators
Finansdepartementet – the Swedish Ministry of Finance – has issued a radical proposal to allow licensed operators to share individual player data in a bid to ‘counter gambling abuse’. The Riksdag has been informed of a memorandum, in which customer data-sharing measures are endorsed by Niklas Wykman, Minister of Financial Markets who is tasked with overseeing Swedish gambling reforms. The …
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