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Gaming Industry Bodies file Complaint against Greece
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The Remote Gambling Association (RGA) and the European Gaming and Betting Association (EGBA) recently filed a complaint with the European Commission setting out how the newly adopted Greek gambling policy does not comply with EU laws.
The draft of Greece’s new legislation that was submitted to the Commission a few months ago was not acceptable to EU standards and the Commission informed Greece of this fact.
In their complaint to the European Commission the European Gaming and Betting Association and the Remote Gaming Association said that the adopted law still contained “a number of anti competitive and unjustified restrictions” that placed “unnecessary and unjustified” economic pressure on operators wishing to enter the Greek gambling market as it required them to have a permanent establishment in Greece. It also required foreign operators to limit their financial transactions to Greek credit groups and banks.
The gaming industry bodies were also dissatisfied with the new tax law in Greece which requires current licensed gambling operators in Greece to pay taxes on any revenues they have earned from Greece based customers retroactively from the 1 January, 2010 until such time as the new licenses have been obtained as they feel that this law is unfair.
The Remote Gambling Association and the European Gaming and Betting Association also criticized the fact that the Greek government intends extending the license of OPAK, the current monopoly provider of offline games, by another ten years. OPAK is not required to pay any gambling tax on its offline activities while online operators are forced to pay a 30% of their gross gaming revenues.
The gambling trade groups are hoping that the Commissioner will investigate their complaint against Greece and take the necessary action.
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