Licensing and regulation: Can we get a licence?

Luxembourg's licensing framework rests on a single statutory instrument, the Law of 20 April 1977 on the operation of games of chance, which is durable primary legislation operating as a general prohibition rather than an open licensing regime. The statute carves out only two named exceptions from that prohibition: the Loterie Nationale and the concessionaire operating Casino 2000, leaving the market with approximately two licensed operators as of mid-2026. No B2B or B2C licensing class exists for private operators, domestic or foreign, and nothing in this cycle's evidence changes that structure. The material development this cycle is Draft Law 8679, tabled 8 January 2026 as phase 1 of a two-phase reform of the 1977 Law. Its declared focus is enforcement against illegal gambling machines rather than the licensing perimeter itself; as a tabled draft it is fragile rather than durable, and the evidentiary base rests on two independent tier-3 sources without a retrieved primary legislative-register text this cycle. Phase 1 leaves the closed-monopoly licensing structure intact.