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Warnings Are Effective?

The Dutch Senate has apparently heeded the European Commission’s warnings concerning the Holland online casinos gambling, betting, and lottery monopoly. The Dutch government consistently rides the line of questionable legislation over the past many months and the nation’s exclusive and protectionist policies have brought Holland along side the nine other countries violating EU policies free movement of trade and services. The Commission issued warnings to several countries already and has been in talks with the others concerning online casinos gambling monopolies. Well, it seems that the warnings have had at least some sort of positive effect in light of last week’s Dutch Senate decision to reject Holland Casinos request for three years of exclusivity.

The Dutch House of Representatives passed Holland Casino’s request for exclusivity in the Dutch online gambling market, but in the past year and more the Commission has taken a much firmer stance against nations in violation of EU policies. Fortunately for Holland, this latest ruling by the Senate indicates a step in the right direction although there is still a ways to go before the nation is completely to rights with EU policies.

The Netherlands still operates a lottery monopoly that specifically excludes foreign land and online casinos gambling operators from accessing Dutch gamblers. The current state monopoly, De Lotto, won a local case concerning exclusive gambling activity in the nation.

As stated, this latest decision by the Dutch Senate is just one step in the right direction for the nation concerning online casinos gambling legislation in compliance with the European Union Treaty. There are still rumors that the Dutch government plans to implement legislation similar to the U.S. UIGEA, which specifically restricts transactions between the foreign gambling operators and the player’s financial institutions.