Germany-facing online casino operators may enjoy some temporary tranquility after local officials decided to press pause on pursuing sanctions against an unspecified international online operator.

On Monday, Renatus Zilles, CEO of the German Association for Telecommunications and Media (DVTM), announced that a Darmstadt Administrative Court proceeding involving the Darmstadt Regional Council and a ‘private gaming provider’ had been suspended at the mutual request of both parties.

The unidentified operator and the Council reportedly sought this truce in order to arrive at “a mutually acceptable and constructive solution for designing a transitional regulation” before Germany’s new regulated online market takes effect on July 1, 2021. As a result, “no enforcement measures” will be taken by the Council “during the rest of the proceedings against the gambling provider involved.”

The Council has been tasked with issuing online gambling permits under Germany’s latest State Treaty on Gambling, which will not only authorize online sports betting but also casino and poker products for the first time. One year ago, the Council issued instructions to prospective online applicants to shut their German-facing online casinos ahead of the regulated market’s launch.