However, the largest online operator already interpreted the verdict as one that would only apply in the region where the ruling was issued...

Like many other federal countries, Germany is struggling with its regionalised gambling competences, which have little effect on the Internet world. An interregional treaty should make an end to this. The heads of the regions decided earlier this week to create a interregional working group to create by December this year a draft treaty that would enforce the state betting monopolies.