Volume: 17 Issue: 4
(April 2018)
Keywords:
roundtable
recent
attempt
liberalise
sports
betting
slovenia
slovenias
national
assembly
voted
favour
mp
sponsored
bill
20
march
2018
seeks
amend
Jurisdictions:
Europe
EU
Austria
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Slovenia’s National Assembly voted in favour of an MP sponsored bill on 20 March 2018, which seeks to amend Slovenia’s Gambling Act in order to liberalise the sports betting market, putting an end to the monopoly on sports betting currently held by sports betting company Športna Loterija. However, a week later on 27 March the bill was vetoed by the National Council of Slovenia. Online Gambling Lawyer spoke to Gregor Famira, Partner at CMS Reich-Rohrwig Hainz and Ažbe Tušar, Senior Associate at Šelih & Partnerji, to get a clearer picture of the developments in Slovenia and whether sports betting is likely to be liberalised in Slovenia anytime soon.