Tag Archives: Ronald Benter

The Joint Gambling Authority of the Länder (GGL) has issued a statement thanking the public for its cooperation in reporting illegal gambling offerings.  In the message, the regulator explained that “these reports are an important tool for combating illegal online gambling and for tackling irregularities in permitted gambling offers on the internet.”  Data shows that since January 2023, GGL has …

Glücksspielbehörde (GGL), the Federal Authority of German Gambling, has initiated a new coordination strategy with state authorities to combat gambling addiction. Coordination meetings began last week as GGL Chairman Ronald Benter met with Konrad Landgraf, Managing Director of the State Office for Gambling Addiction in Bavaria (LSG). Benter is scheduled to speak with individual state authorities to improve cooperation and …

Overseas content streamers could be banned for promoting unlicensed gambling services to German audiences after a decision by the Saxony-Anhalt Higher Administrative Court.  The decision was in support of a previous legal challenge raised by the Joint Gambling Authority of the Länder (GGL) in connection to a well-known German streamer based abroad, who was engaging with slot games unlicensed in …

Gluecksspiel (GGL), the Federal Authority of German Gambling, will start its chairmanship under Reiner Moser on 1 July 2024. Reiner Moser, a Minister of the Bundesland of Baden-Württemberg, will replace Udo Götze as Chairman of the GGL. He will oversee the agency’s progress on regulatory affairs, reporting to the Bundestag – Germany’s Federal Parliament. The GGL board consists of department …

The twentieth edition of the Symposium on Gambling held at the University of Hohenheim in Germany presented a look into the gambling regulator Glücksspielbehörde’s (GGL) current and future gambling research practices.  Attending the meeting was GGL Board Member Ronald Benter, who spoke about the importance of well-rounded research into the gambling sector at a time when the State Treaty on …

Glücksspielbehörde (GGL), the Federal Gambling Authority of Germany, has detailed its concerns regarding impending changes to the Strafgesetzbuch (StGB), the Criminal Code of Germany. Speaking at the Lotto Talk event in Berlin, GGL Co-President Ronald Benter disclosed that the authority had issued an appeal to the Federal Ministry of Justice to ‘reconsider amendments to the Criminal Code’. The Ministry of …

Gluecksspiel (GGL), the Federal Gambling Authority of Germany has launched a new ‘public information campaign’ on online gambling safeguards.  The initiative was announced this week as the headline directive of Germany’s first ‘nationwide action day against gambling addiction’ hosted on 27 September. The authority detailed: “GGL is supporting this annual day of action by providing an information brochure in which …

The leadership of Germany’s Gluecksspiel (GGL) is ‘ready to go’, Board Member Benjamin Schwanke has asserted to national stakeholders, six months into the federal gambling regulator’s operations. In a series of updates this week, the GGL has provided an annual report into the workings of the German betting and gaming market since the imposition of the Fourth Interstate Gambling Treaty …

Gluecksspiel (GGL), the Federal Authority of German Gambling, has confirmed that daily fantasy sports (DFS) will be classified as a gambling product available to German consumers. The decision has been made following a review of DFS products, games and tournaments, in which the GGL concluded that DFS can be classified as a gambling product under the regulatory framework of Germany’s …

The Gluecksspiel (GGL), Germany’s federal gambling regulator, has won a court case regarding a ruling against an unnamed television broadcaster for promoting a gambling offering. At the end of March, Munich’s Supreme Court decided that the GGL’s ruling that the broadcaster had been providing ‘online games of chance’ in the form of ‘competitions’ was lawful, as customers could win money …