Greece's gambling market combines steady commercial growth with a tightening enforcement posture aimed at the unlicensed sector's promotional layer. The EEEP reported 2025 licensed-market gross gaming revenue of EUR 3.07 billion, up 6.7% year-on-year, against a standing unlicensed shadow market. The Hellenic Gaming Commission, under the Ministry of Finance, has moved from statutory enactment of Law 5313/2026 to active enforcement, filing legal complaints against 18 social-media influencers with a combined 3.6 million followers for promoting unlicensed gambling. The Finance Minister has stated illegal gambling is now designated a criminal and economic threat, with Law 5313/2026 already being actively implemented. This combination of market growth alongside enforcement intensity characterises the current regulatory disposition toward operators and their promotional intermediaries.
Greece · Question 01 of 11
Overview: What kind of market is this?
Mixed · Probable · Not reviewed · 1 post-review update · Not reviewed · Back to full Greece report →
Key section parameters
| Jurisdiction | Greece (GR) |
|---|---|
| Regulator | HGC |
| Favourability | Mixed |
| Confidence | Probable |
| Review status | Not reviewed · 1 post-review update · Not reviewed |
| Last collected | 18 Oct 2026 |
Summary answer
Greece's gambling market combines steady commercial growth with a tightening enforcement posture aimed at the unlicensed sector's promotional layer. The EEEP reported 2025 licensed-market gross gaming revenue of EUR 3.07 billion, up 6.7% year-on-year, against a standing unlicensed shadow market. The…
Key headwinds & conditions
- High 35% GGR tax relative to MT/EE/CY peers
- High EUR 2–3m licence fees plus EUR 500k guarantee
- Local server-hosting and Greek-language requirements
Greece's gambling market operates under the established Law 4002/2011 licensing framework, supervised by the Hellenic Gaming Commission (HGC/EEEP), with no change to that core structure this cycle. The dominant development is a tightening of enforcement and liability exposure: Law 5313/2026 introduces a standalone advertising-liability offence reaching affiliates and media promoting unlicensed gambling, while an omnibus reform bill covering illegal-gambling enforcement, HGC staffing expansion, and winnings-tax changes has cleared public consultation and moved to the parliamentary process. The HGC continues active blacklist enforcement, having blocked approximately 11,000 unlicensed domains as of December 2025. Taken together, these signals place Greece in the civil-law family pattern of a statutory licensing stack backed by administrative and blocking enforcement, currently on a tightening trajectory this cycle.