{"id":1576,"date":"2019-12-13T16:09:42","date_gmt":"2019-12-13T16:09:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/?p=1576"},"modified":"2026-04-24T09:24:19","modified_gmt":"2026-04-24T12:24:19","slug":"sports-betting-hesse-applicants","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/sports-betting-hesse-applicants","title":{"rendered":"Sports betting in Hesse gets no applicants"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The licencing process for sports betting in the German state of Hesse had not a single application, Minister for the Interior Peter Beuth revealed.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<!--more-->\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Germany.- Updating regulations for each gaming segment is a key subject for a healthy industry. However, sports betting in Hesse seems to be more difficult than expected, as the licencing process had no applicants.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Local Minister for the Interior Peter Beuth disclosed the lack of applications. However, he warned operators to cease offering sports betting in Hesse. He advanced that those that fail to comply will face immediate action.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cI urgently warn operators that from January 2020, sports betting is subject to authorisation,\u201d&nbsp; Beuth said. \u201cThere will be no more toleration [of unlicensed offerings]. We will consistently prohibit illegal offerings. If you do not have permission then you are liable for prosecution, and the state will be forced to act.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cAdvertising for sportsbook providers would then no longer be shown, whether on television or in stadia.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Re-regulating the German market<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong><em>Deutsche Automatenwirtschaft<\/em><\/strong>&nbsp;(DAW), which is the umbrella association in charge of gaming machine manufacturers and suppliers,&nbsp;<strong><em><a rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/germany-gaming-machine-association\" target=\"_blank\">has published<\/a><\/em><\/strong>&nbsp;a key paper. It highlights a series of changes that must be addressed before a re-regulation of the market.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">DAW said that in order to further strengthen player protection, a coherent regulation based exclusively on quality criteria is needed. It also said that it should be based on its key issue paper. In it, it makes concrete proposals for the regulation of the commercial slots machines.<br><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The licencing process for sports betting in the German state of Hesse had not a single application, Minister for the Interior Peter Beuth revealed.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"is_press_release":false,"is_interview":false,"is_opinion":false,"focusai_summary":"The German state of Hesse has reported zero applications for its sports betting licensing process, prompting Interior Minister Peter Beuth to issue a stern warning to unlicensed operators, threatening immediate prosecution and advertising bans from January 2020. Concurrently, Deutsche Automatenwirtschaft (DAW) has published a position paper advocating for a comprehensive re-regulation of the German gaming market, emphasizing quality criteria and enhanced player protection, particularly for commercial slots.","focusai_entities":"Peter Beuth, Deutsche Automatenwirtschaft (DAW)","focusai_location":"Germany, Hesse","focusai_target_profile":"ceo_executive (0.9), regulator (1.0), compliance_legal (1.0), operator_casino (0.95), affiliate_publisher (0.85), marketing_crm (0.8), investor_analyst (0.9), supplier_vendor (0.8), journalist_researcher (0.95)","focusai_suggestions":[{"label":"Hesse Licensing Failure Impact?","query":"What specific deficiencies in Hesse's sports betting licensing framework led to zero applications, and how might this influence future federal or state-level regulatory efforts in Germany?"},{"label":"DAW Re-regulation Proposals?","query":"How do Deutsche Automatenwirtschaft's (DAW) proposed 'quality criteria' for re-regulation align with or diverge from current regulatory philosophies, and what is the likelihood of their adoption in a revised German Interstate Treaty on Gambling?"}],"footnotes":""},"categories":[16331,2234,156],"tags":[337,233],"class_list":["post-1576","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-elsewhere-news","category-emea","category-regulation-news","tag-regulation","tag-sports-betting"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1576","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1576"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1576\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":777010324,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1576\/revisions\/777010324"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1576"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1576"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1576"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}