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Brazilian government moved online gambling law enactment to August

Fernando Bezerra Coelho, the representative of the Socialist Party of Brazil, made a proposal to postpone the vote on the draft law on the online gambling regulation. The reason for changing the date of the vote is due to the fact that its needs revisions.

The representative of the Socialist Party of Brazil suggested to postpone the vote on the draft law to the end of August. In return, the author of the bill on the regulation of online gambling in the country, Ciro Nogueira, representative of the Progressive Party, has offered to provide Coelho revised draft law by the end of July, so legislators could examine it in the first weeks of August.

Earlier, CEDN – Special Committee on National Development decided to adopt the amendments to the bill on the regulation of the online bookmakers. Also, the document suggests the existence of a lottery terminals, online casino and bingo.

12/22/2016

The debut of the new product has taken place in several casinos of the Las Vegas Strip. In the coming months, it will be supplied to partners of Scientific Games. The developer has already received a permission of many US regulators and is planning to distribute the platform worldwide during 2017. TwinStar J43 – curved platform in portrait style with a diagonal of 43 inches and a resolution of 4K. Increased iDeck touch control panel helps to int…

12/22/2016

Polish government adopted amendments to the gambling law from 2009 on the Tuesday, July 19, 2016. The bill was prepared by the Ministry of Finance and implies more liberal regulations for the gambling market. According to the adopted amendments, gambling operators now have the right to arrange slot machine halls outside casinos and offer poker games on the Internet. Although, at the same time arrangement of slot machines halls allowed only in sp…

Cyprus

12/21/2016

Regulator: Cyprus National Betting Authority (NBA) Site: http://www.mof.gov.cy Address: Michael Karaoli & Gregori Afxentiou 1439 Nicosia Phone: +357 22602723 Act of 2012 After years of debates, the Government adopted “Betting Act” in 2012 that made gambling in land-based and online casinos illegal.The new law established that only sports betting, horse racing and lotteries are to be the only legal regulated forms of gambling and only spo…