All 35 Danish standards,
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Establishes the four purposes against which all operator conduct is measured: keep gambling consumption at a moderate level, protect young and vulnerable persons from exploitation and addiction, ensure gambling is fair, responsible and transparent, and prevent gambling from supporting crime.

No person may offer or arrange gambling in Denmark without a Spillemyndigheden licence. Online casino and betting licences are issued for up to five years and require fit-and-proper owners, directors and key staff.

Gambling may only be offered to persons who have reached the age of 18. Age must be verified before any real-money play and reinforced in all marketing.

Licence holders may not extend credit to players and may not accept payment from third-party credit on the player's behalf. Deposits must come from the player's own funds.

Every player must hold a single registered account, identified through MitID (which replaced NemID in 2022), before any real-money play can begin.

Operators must require each player to set daily, weekly and monthly deposit limits before the first deposit. Lowering a limit takes effect immediately; raising a limit takes effect only after 24 hours.

Operators must offer an in-session clock, recurring reality-check pop-ups and a self-exclusion mechanism reachable from within the player account.

Player balances and winnings must be payable on demand and protected from operator insolvency. Funds held for players must be segregated from the operator's own working capital.

Operators may not offer bets on events that undermine public morality or integrity, including bets on bookings in youth sport, or on events the operator or its staff can directly influence.

Live betting must be settled from a verifiable data source. Operators must keep event and odds records available to the DGA for reconstruction of any settlement.

Under Executive Order 43/2025 on match-fixing, operators must monitor, record and report suspicious betting patterns and cooperate with sporting bodies and the national match-fixing secretariat.

Random Number Generators used for casino games must be independently certified to the DGA's statistical and security requirements before go-live. From 2026, recertification is triggered by changes affecting compliance rather than an automatic annual cycle.

The operator's base platform — covering player-account handling, transaction ledgers and session management — must meet the DGA's baseline set out in SCP.02.00 (February 2025 edition).

Each online-casino game must comply with SCP.07.03 on stake and win display, theoretical return-to-player disclosure, and prohibited mechanics.

Operators must transmit gambling data — accounts, bets, deposits, withdrawals and exclusion events — to the DGA's SAFE data warehouse on a continuous basis for supervision and reconciliation.

Outbound regulatory reports must be signed using the TamperToken mechanism so the DGA can detect tampering and verify provenance.

Since 1 January 2025, suppliers of games to Danish-licensed B2C operators must themselves hold a DGA supplier licence, bringing the supply chain inside the inspection and AML perimeter.

Before allowing a player to log in or deposit, operators must check the player against ROFUS in real time and block access for any excluded player.

Operators must enable players to register for temporary or permanent ROFUS exclusion directly from their platform, without friction or dissuasion.

ROFUS registration also flags a player as opted out of gambling marketing. Operators must suppress all direct marketing to that player and extend the suppression to affiliates acting on their behalf.

Licensed operators must display the DGA licence label and contact details for the StopSpillet helpline on every player-facing surface, with links to treatment resources.

Before a player gambles, they must receive information about the 18+ age limit, the risks of gambling and available treatment, prepared in collaboration with a recognised treatment centre.

The DGA expects operators to actively monitor high-stake or distressed players and to intervene where indicators warrant, escalating to permanent exclusion where needed.

Gambling operators are obliged entities under the AML Act and must maintain a written firm-wide risk assessment and board-approved AML policies, and register in the DGA's AML register under Executive Order 239/2025.

Customer due diligence must be applied at onboarding and on trigger events; enhanced due diligence is required for high-risk customers, PEPs and unusual transactions.

Operators must monitor transactions for suspicious patterns and report suspicious-transaction reports to the Danish FIU (Hvidvasksekretariatet) without undue delay.

KYC, transactional and monitoring records must be retained and made available to the DGA on request.

Advertising must present winning odds in a correct and balanced manner and cannot depict gambling as a solution to financial or social problems.

Marketing must not target under-18s through messaging or media selection, and must not appeal to vulnerable persons.

Promotional offers are capped at DKK 1,000 in value, with wagering requirements no higher than 10x and a minimum 60-day completion window. Key terms must be visible alongside the offer.

Every advertisement must state the 18+ age limit, the StopSpillet helpline and a reference to ROFUS, alongside clear operator or licensee identification.

Operators are responsible for marketing carried out on their behalf by affiliates; the same content, audience and disclosure rules apply to affiliate output.

Licence holders must publish a documented complaints procedure and handle complaints within a reasonable time, retaining a complaints log for DGA review.

Players dissatisfied with the operator may complain to Spillemyndigheden on licensing or regulatory matters, and DGA decisions may be appealed to the National Tax Tribunal (Landsskatteretten).

Since 1 July 2024, court rulings and fines against licensed operators are published on the DGA site for five years.