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The Skinny on French Regulations

GambleCraft has previously covered the growing controversy and concern about the French regulations that are in the final drafting stage before a planned implementation in January 2010. But there is more to the situation and a growing force is not only protesting the regulations but working with the French government on possible other regulations that comply more with the European Union’s free trade policies. The European Commission has played a key role in the opening of the French market and now that sports betting operators are crying foul it is time for the Commission to step in and work with France on bringing the planned regulations into compliance.

The proposed French regulations take an interesting spin on the role of the sports bettors and betting operations in the game of sports and in the whole of the gaming industry. In a move that is largely unheard of the French regulations are currently designed to force the EU betting operators to pay a fee to the sporting leagues to offer bets on their games. This is completely unworkable for the sports betting operators and is really a rather bizarre request. The betting companies are willing to pay taxes and fees to the government to address fears that the online casinos and betting sites will bring corruption to the sporting industries. But the Commission and the betting operators argue that paying a fee to the sports leagues is hardly the most effective way for these companies to maintain integrity in sports.

The crux of the current dilemma stems from the fact that this stipulation in the betting laws only applies to foreign online casinos and betting companies and that makes it discriminatory. Discrimination against foreign competition is precisely what these new regulations are supposed to combat and the there is every hope that the French government will continue tweaking the regulations for better compliance with EU policies.