Online Gambling Regulations
About the data

Methodology & Sources

A reference is only as good as its sourcing. This page documents how entries in the atlas are compiled, classified, dated and corrected.

What counts as a source

Every regulatory claim — a status, a tax rate, a licence fee, a date — is tied to a numbered reference, and the reference hierarchy is strict: the primary legal text first (the act, decree or statutory instrument in its official gazette), the competent regulator's own publications second, and reputable secondary reporting only as a pointer toward a primary source, never as the load-bearing citation.

Where a figure is genuinely in flux — a fee schedule mid-reform, a licence round mid-award — the entry says so explicitly rather than presenting a snapshot as settled law.

How statuses are classified

Each jurisdiction is recorded per vertical (casino, sports betting, poker, lottery, bingo) against four classifications: regulated (a local licensing regime exists), state monopoly (legal but reserved for an exclusive operator), grey market (neither licensed nor effectively prohibited) and prohibited (expressly illegal to offer). A country is never summarized with a single verdict — France licenses betting and poker while prohibiting online casino, and collapsing that into "legal" or "illegal" would be wrong in both directions.

Dating and freshness

Every reference carries the date it was last checked against its source, and regulatory changes are recorded in the change tracker as dated events with their own citations. Country profiles link the tracker entries that affect them, so a profile's history is auditable rather than silently overwritten.

Scope and its limits

Jurisdictions enter the atlas in two stages: the world map records a per-vertical status for a broad set of countries, while full profiles — statute, regulator, tax detail, key facts — are published progressively. A territory shown without colour on the map is not a verdict; it simply has not been documented yet. Microstates below the map's geographic resolution (Malta, Singapore) are documented in the reference tables even where the map cannot draw them.

Corrections

Gambling regulation moves quickly, and a reference that pretends otherwise is not a reference. Entries found to be outdated or wrong are corrected at the source data level, which republishes every page that depends on them; the change then appears in the tracker where material.

On legal advice

This atlas documents legislation; it does not interpret it for any specific situation. Operators and players should verify current law with the competent authority or qualified counsel before acting.

Source register

The complete register of sources cited across the atlas, as of 2026:

Frequently asked questions

What counts as a source here?
Primary materials first: the statute, the regulator’s own publication, the official gazette, the court opinion. Industry press is used for orientation, never as the resting place of a factual claim — every status, rate and date on the site resolves to the citation registry on this page.
How current is the data?
Each source entry carries the date it was last checked, and the change tracker records regulatory movement as it lands. Volatile facts — tax rates mid-escalation, markets mid-transition — are the ones watched most closely.
What are the REF codes on profiles?
Stable internal identifiers — GBR-001, LIC-MT-B2C and so on — that make cross-references between profiles, the map and the tracker unambiguous. They are the atlas’s own plate numbers, not official designations.
What does the atlas deliberately not cover?
Operator reviews, bonuses, odds and anything promotional. The scope is regulation: who licenses, under what law, at what rates, with which player-protection machinery. Where a vertical in a country lacks enough sourceable fact to say something verifiable, the atlas shows no data rather than a guess.
  1. Gambling Act 2005 — legislation.gov.uk, www.legislation.gov.uk
  2. Gambling (Licensing and Advertising) Act 2014 — legislation.gov.uk, www.legislation.gov.uk
  3. UK Gambling Commission — official site — gamblingcommission.gov.uk, www.gamblingcommission.gov.uk
  4. High Stakes: gambling reform for the digital age (White Paper) — GOV.UK / DCMS, www.gov.uk
  5. Gambling Act 2005 (Operating Licence Conditions) (Amendment) Regulations 2025 — online slots stake limits — legislation.gov.uk, www.legislation.gov.uk
  6. Staatsvertrag zur Neuregulierung des Glücksspielwesens in Deutschland (GlüStV 2021) — gluecksspiel-behoerde.de, www.gluecksspiel-behoerde.de
  7. Gemeinsame Glücksspielbehörde der Länder (GGL) — gluecksspiel-behoerde.de, www.gluecksspiel-behoerde.de
  8. Unlawful Internet Gambling Enforcement Act of 2006 (31 U.S.C. §§ 5361–5367) — U.S. Code (Legal Information Institute), www.law.cornell.edu
  9. Murphy v. National Collegiate Athletic Association, 584 U.S. ___ (2018) — Supreme Court of the United States, www.supremecourt.gov
  10. New Jersey Division of Gaming Enforcement — nj.gov, www.nj.gov
  11. Criminal Code (Canada), s. 207 — permitted lotteries — Justice Laws Canada, laws-lois.justice.gc.ca
  12. AGCO — Internet gaming in Ontario — agco.ca, www.agco.ca
  13. Lei nº 14.790, de 29 de dezembro de 2023 — Planalto (Brazil), www.planalto.gov.br
  14. Secretaria de Prêmios e Apostas — Ministério da Fazenda — gov.br, www.gov.br
  15. Ley 13/2011, de 27 de mayo, de regulación del juego — BOE (Spain), www.boe.es
  16. Dirección General de Ordenación del Juego (DGOJ) — ordenacionjuego.es, www.ordenacionjuego.es
  17. Agenzia delle Dogane e dei Monopoli (ADM) — Giochi — adm.gov.it, www.adm.gov.it
  18. Decreto Legislativo 25 marzo 2024, n. 41 — riordino del settore dei giochi (online) — Gazzetta Ufficiale, www.gazzettaufficiale.it
  19. Wet kansspelen op afstand (Remote Gambling Act) — Overheid.nl, wetten.overheid.nl
  20. Kansspelautoriteit (KSA) — kansspelautoriteit.nl, www.kansspelautoriteit.nl
  21. Belastingplan — kansspelbelasting increase 30.5% → 34.2% (2025) → 37.8% (2026) — Ondernemersplein (overheid.nl), ondernemersplein.overheid.nl
  22. Spellag (2018:1138) — Sveriges Riksdag, www.riksdagen.se
  23. Spelinspektionen — Swedish Gambling Authority — spelinspektionen.se, www.spelinspektionen.se
  24. Interactive Gambling Act 2001 (Cth) — Federal Register of Legislation (Australia), www.legislation.gov.au
  25. ACMA — Interactive gambling rules — acma.gov.au, www.acma.gov.au
  26. Gaming Act, 2018 (Chapter 583, Laws of Malta) — Legislation Malta, legislation.mt
  27. Malta Gaming Authority — mga.org.mt, www.mga.org.mt
  28. Landsverordening op de kansspelen (LOK) — Curaçao — Curaçao Gaming Authority, www.cga.cw
  29. Curaçao Gaming Authority (former Gaming Control Board) — cga.cw, www.cga.cw
  30. Gibraltar Gambling Act 2025 (in force October 1, 2025) — Gibraltar Laws, www.gibraltarlaws.gov.gi
  31. Decreto-Legge 96/2025 — fiscal alignment for online gambling (with 2025 Budget Law) — Gazzetta Ufficiale, www.gazzettaufficiale.it
  32. HM Government of Gibraltar — Remote Gambling licensing — gibraltar.gov.gi, www.gibraltar.gov.gi
  33. Anjouan Gaming — Internet Gaming Regulatory Authority (licence register) — anjouangaming.com, anjouangaming.com
  34. Kahnawake Gaming Commission — gamingcommission.ca, gamingcommission.ca
  35. Fourth National Lottery licence — Allwyn (from February 2024) — gamblingcommission.gov.uk, www.gamblingcommission.gov.uk
  36. The Gambling Levy Regulations 2025 — statutory levy on operators — legislation.gov.uk, www.legislation.gov.uk
  37. GAMSTOP — national online self-exclusion scheme (GB) — gamstop.co.uk, www.gamstop.co.uk
  38. iGaming Alberta Act (Bill 48, 2025) — Legislative Assembly of Alberta, www.assembly.ab.ca
  39. Gambling system reform — licensing for betting and online casino (new Gambling Act) — Finnish Government / Ministry of the Interior, valtioneuvosto.fi
  40. Online Casino Gambling Act 2026 (New Zealand, in force May 1, 2026) — New Zealand Legislation, www.legislation.govt.nz