Beschwerde über erlaubte oder illegale Glücksspielwerbung im Internet einreichen

If you have any tips about advertisements for legal or illegal gambling offers on the Internet, you can submit them anonymously.

If you have tips about advertising for permitted or unpermitted gambling offers on the Internet, you can submit them anonymously.

The publication of gambling advertising is regulated in Germany. Only gaming providers that have received a permit to conduct gambling from the competent authority are allowed to advertise their gambling offers (i.e. legal gambling offers).

If you are not sure whether you have discovered a violation of rules of gambling advertising, find out in advance in the State Gambling Treaty 2021.

Here are some clues for you:

• Gambling advertising must not suggest that players can influence gambling.
• No advertising for virtual slot machine games, online poker and online casino games may take place on the radio or Internet between 6 a.m. and 9 p.m. (daily).
• Directly before or during the live broadcasting of sports events, it is not permitted for advertising for sports betting on this sports event to be broadcast on the broadcasting channel.

Relevance has references to gambling advertising, for example, in the area of horse and sports betting, lotteries, online poker or virtual slot machine games.

Optional: supporting documents for the incident (in various common file formats)

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You can submit a tip online or in writing and remain completely anonymous if you wish.

If you wish to submit your tip online:

• You describe your tip on the focus of advertising in legal or illegal gambling briefly and concisely in the whistleblower system.
• After sending your tip, you will receive a reference number from the system, which you can use to send additional information to the responsible authority online or by mail.
• The whistleblower system offers you the option of setting up an anonymous mailbox. In this mailbox, the submitted tip and any supplements are stored and the competent authority can send you feedback via this.

You can also submit information informally in writing to the competent authority.

• If you wish to remain completely anonymous as a whistleblower, you must ensure that your information or file uploads do not allow any conclusions to be drawn about your person.
• The whistleblower system is not suitable for filing police reports.
• The responsibility lies with the Joint Gambling Authority of the Federal States.

The processing time is 4 to 8 weeks.

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• Display of a complaint about advertising for permitted or unpermitted gambling offers on the Internet Receipt.
• Any person can make a complaint about advertising for permitted or unpermitted gambling offers on the Internet.
• online and fully anonymous if desired
• no police report
• The offer does not constitute a complaint possibility about gambling providers, which can be clarified otherwise and bilaterally.
• Responsible: Joint Gambling Authority of the Federal States (GGL).

Ministry of the Interior, Construction and Digitalization of Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania - Gambling Supervision in the role of formal triage and approval (accompanying specialist authority in the state of implementation).

In the role of substantive responsibility, the Joint Gaming Authority is responsible.

Ministry of the Interior, Building and Digitalization of Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania - Gambling Supervision in the role of formal triage and approval (accompanying specialist authority in the state of implementation).

In the role of substantive responsibility, the Joint Gaming Authority is responsible.

Forms available: No
Written form required: No
Informal application possible: Yes
Personal appearance required: No