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Key Facts

Belgium

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Reception Date

17.05.23

Category

DOMESTIC AND LEISURE EQUIPMENT

Games of chance

Ministries & Departments

Chambre des représentants

Responsible Departments

SPF Economie, PME, Classes moyennes et Energie

Products & Services concerned

Gambling and betting operated in the real world and using Information Society tools.

Related EU Law

None

Explanation

Article 4: The purpose of the ban on cumulation is to bring the players back down to earth and prevent them from moving from one class of games of chance (such as Class I, which has a particularly high degree of danger) to another (such as Class II, which has a slightly lower degree of danger) without being aware of doing so. The ban on cumulation also implies that a player cannot be redirected to games of chance of a different nature, i.e. games of chance that are covered by another license, or to lottery games, nor can a player be shown them. Moreover, in its judgment No 114/2021, the Constitutional Court confirmed once more that the same license holder was prohibited from cumulating ‘several additional licenses of separate classes for operating games of chance and taking bets via a single domain name and associated URLs’.

Summary

The articles covered by the notification are Articles 4 and 7 of the proposed law.

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Law is drafted in Belgium Belgium notifies the draft law 17.05.23 Draft law returns to Belgium Commenting Periode Ends 22.08.23 1 Member States & EC Responses 0 Detailed Opinions 0 Comments 1 External Stakeholders Responses

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Belgian Association of Gaming Operators Download 2023-08-11 1
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