Home	Tutorial	Online Casino Reviews	Best Online Casinos	Casino Software	Casino News

Online Casino Gambling --- Casino News

Tricky Legislation for Online Casinos

Scandinavia is taking a lot of heat these days about the insistence that each of the Scandinavian countries continue the operation of their state-run land and online casino gambling monopolies. Finland is on the European’s watch list of countries that refuse to comply with EU laws that govern the free movement of trade and services between EU member states. Foreign online casinos and gambling sites that are registered and operated out of other EU member-states have contested the protectionist legislation enacted by the Finnish government to protect the revenue coming in from the state monopoly. The latest news out of Finland is likely to only exacerbate this already tense situation.

According to the Finnish Minister for Sport and Culture, the Finland Slot Machine Association, RAY (Raha-automaattiyhdistys) will likely open the nation’s first legal online casino poker site by the end of the year. RAY operates the state gaming monopoly and has readied all of the backend support and technology needed to operate an internet poker site. Now though, the only issue stopping the implementation of this online casino poker site is the government’s current regulations regarding the internet poker gambling industry.

RAY anticipates that the current legislation will be altered in the coming months with plenty of time to allow the monopoly to implement a new internet poker gambling site. This announcement is likely to bring more heat to the current issue brewing with the European Commission about the continued state gambling monopoly and the blatant discrimination against foreign online casinos.