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What are the Qualifications?: 2

The statement from the European Court of Justice means that online casino gambling gambling monopolies that are in the business with profit and revenue as the main concern are illegal under the policies of the European Union. These markets must allow competition from foreign online casinos. You can guarantee though that even the state monopolies making hand-over-fist in revenue will attempt to prove that a state-run monopoly is safer for the public than a regulated foreign gambling market. Sweden’s monopoly, Svenske Spel has long argued that the monopoly was in place as a way to protect underage and problem gamblers. Even though Commissioner Charlie McCreevy has shot down this argument, the Swedish government asserts that it has the right to block foreign online casinos from the Swedish market.

McCreevy has not released a statement in response to the ECJ’s official statement. McCreevy has long asserted that the principles and policies of the European Union support an open online casino gambling market throughout all of the member-states. On the other side of the debate, while the ECJ’s statement notes that there are some circumstances under which a monopoly might be warrantesd, many online casinos and analysts believe that the ECJ’s statement was intended to illustrate that the Portuguese internet betting monopoly does not meet the requirements laid out in the statement.

Some in the online casino gambling industry and in various governments have interpreted the inverse. In the end though, the decision power on the situation was given back to the local courts in Portugal to decide.