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GGL urges German states to treat illegal online gambling as a public-health issue

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Germany’s GGL used its Gambling Addiction Action Day on 24 September to call on the Länder to recognise illegal online gambling as a public-health concern. The regulator highlighted consumer-protection risks and warned that token-based social betting and prediction-trading services such as Polymarket are not permitted under Germany’s 2021 Interstate Treaty on Gambling.

The GGL’s position signals continued scrutiny of unlicensed gambling offers and prediction-trading services in Germany.

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DGOJ links prediction markets to betting exchange rules in Spain

Spain’s DGOJ described prediction markets as cross-betting products in a 26 May notice, while its director general reiterated at MERGE Madrid in late October that gambling products require a licence to operate in Spain. The notice did not specify which licence applies; the article interprets the existing cross-betting category as potentially relevant. Italy’s 2013 rules allow player-to-player betting on non-sporting events, but the source says such events have not become part of a working exchange market.

Spain's DGOJ described prediction markets as player-to-player cross-betting in a 26 May notice, but did not say which licence applies, according to an analysis on an Italian gambling industry site. The author said a link to an existing cross-betting licence was an interpretation.

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