Key Takeaways
- Greece to continue with its plan to expand the number of online gaming licenses.
- Online poker players to protest Portugal’s plan to go live with segregated online poker market.
- Romania denies reports that it brought criminal charges against players on unlicensed sites.
Greece
The Greek government has announced that it will move legislation to expand the number of online gaming licenses it can issue.
Currently, OPAP has a monopoly position, although this is obscured by the existence of 24 “temporary” license holders whose licenses are set to expire in 2017.
Details on what tax rates and license fees will be levied have not been published, but they are likely to be relatively expensive.
The original proposal was made last year when a fee of €3 million and an initial payment of €1 million in advance gaming tax was presented as a part of a budget submission to the EU, ECB and IMF.
