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Concerns with Blocking Online Casinos

The newly proposed Norwegian regulations that look strikingly similar to the US’s failed UIGEA legislation has some in Europe vehemently protesting. Norway has been one of those questionable countries for quite some time now in regards to the online casino gambling issue. The European Commission has been encouraging EU-wide compliance with EU policies that dictate that each EU member-state must uphold free trade of goods and services throughout the EU. But several countries, Norway included, choose to exempt online casinos from this policy and instead support state-run monopolies or the outright blocking of certain sectors of the industry.

The Remote Gaming Association (RGA), a group that has been out of the headlines for months now, is stepping back into the media spotlight and outright objecting to the UIGEA-esque regulations that are a heartbeat away from passage in Norway. The Norwegian regulations seek to block access to the Norwegian market by banning transactions at the banking and financial level. The Norwegian legislation has already passed through Norway’s parliament – a fact that has the online casinos and those with an interest in the EU gambling industry on high alert.

The RGA is acting quickly though in opposition to the proposed Nordic UIGEA and filed a formal complaint with The European Surveillance Agency. The issue of online casino gambling monopolies is still in a very gray area right now in the EU because there has been a high ruling on the issue from neither the agency nor the European Court of Justice. This current Norwegian legislation is designed most specifically to protect Norway’s gambling monopoly, Norske Tipping – and protection of a state monopoly is likely to not go very far in an official argument for the questionable legislation.