Overview, Update and Outlook by Carsten
Bringmann Senior Associate at the International law
firm, Hogan Lovells in Dusseldorf
Germany is one of the most attractive and expanding gambling
markets worldwide: With a GGR of around 14 billion EUR in 2018, it
is the third biggest gambling market in Europe after Italy and the
UK. Although it offers profitable income opportunities for the
gaming industry, gaming companies have to face a complicated and
restrictive German gambling legislation. Though the regulation in
the gambling sector is very dynamic and constantly adapting to the
reality of the fast changing gambling market, gambling law in
Germany is still dominated by one essential legal framework, the
State Treaty on Gambling from 15 December 2011 ["State
Treaty" – Glücksspielstaatsvertrag] that was
concluded by the 16 federal states. Each federal state has
implemented the State Treaty into its respective state law. As the
key regulation on gambling in Germany, the
