Enforcement: How hard does the regulator enforce?

Enforcement in Slovakia sits on the civil-law statutory-licensing stack: unlicensed gambling operation is an offence under Act No. 30/2019 Coll. itself, with URHH's active site-blocking regime as the principal secondary enforcement vector — a probable figure of over 820 unlicensed sites blocked as of late 2025, sourced from a secondary aggregator rather than primary disclosure. This cycle's structurally significant development is URHH's new consumer-protection supervisory competence from 1 February 2026 under Act No. 108/2024 Z.z., confirmed via URHH's own guidance and mixed in durability, which expands the enforcement lane independent of the stalled liberalisation bill. Separately, President Pellegrini's November 2025 veto of the National Council's 71-7 liberalisation and tax amendment remains unresolved, with parliament's override option (absolute majority) neither confirmed exercised nor lapsed as of this cycle. No confirmed licence-revocation event reached this cycle's evidence base.