Enforcement: How hard does the regulator enforce?

Luxembourg's enforcement baseline today rests on Criminal Code Articles 301 to 308, carrying penalties of eight days to six months' imprisonment and fines of EUR 251 to 25,000 for unlawful gambling activity -- a MIXED-durability regime, codified but evidently under strain against the modern gambling-machine landscape. Draft law 8679, introduced 8 January 2026, would grant the Ministry of Justice clearer statutory powers to seize illegal gambling machines and penalise venue owners specifically, with a three-month compliance transition period for bar owners to adapt before seizure and penalty exposure applies. This instrument is not yet in force and is FRAGILE-to-MIXED in durability pending enactment, but it represents a material tightening signal: officials have stated explicitly that the existing definition required adaptation to give the Ministry the practical means to intervene against illegal machines. No enforcement events -- seizures, prosecutions, or fines under either the existing or proposed framework -- are evidenced this cycle, and none are asserted in their absence. The confidence tier on the draft law itself is Confirmed, corroborated by two independent tier-3 press sources; the primary legislative text has not been independently retrieved this cycle, which limits precise characterisation of the new powers' exact statutory scope.