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Battening Down the Hatches

The Norwegian government must think that a storm is on the way – new regulations in the country suggest that it is fast becoming one of the most monopolistic land and online casinos gambling countries in the world. Norway has recently begun to really push protectionist legislation, despite pressure from the European Commission for just the opposite. The European Commission has heavily pressured nations with internet gambling monopolies to comply with EU free-trade policies. Last week’s announcement concerning limitations on land gambling machines, coupled with attempts to block foreign online casinos, prove that the Norwegian government has no intention to comply with the Commission at this point.

There are currently nearly a dozen EU member-states with protectionist legislation blocking foreign online casinos access to the state land and internet gambling market. Norway operates a state sponsored land gambling monopoly (which does not operate online casino gambling) and new state regulations put event more restrictions in place for the land gambling industry. Now, the government will fully monitor Norwegian’s while they play the land gambling machines. The new system uses pre-paid electronic cards (bought through player accounts at Norske Tipping) to limit the amount of time players can spend at the gambling machines, along with the amount of money they gamble, and how much they lose.

That amount of monitoring of land and online casino players is justified under the reasoning that increases in gambling addictions justify further regulating an already restrictive gambling environment. There is no telling how these new restrictions will go over with the European gambling companies – the primary issue at this point is centered on the Norwegian attempts to block offshore online casinos from accessing Norwegian players.