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Commission Doesn't Like

The new Belgian online casino gambling regulations are garnering a lot of criticism right now as the European Commission finds that they are in contravention to the European policy regarding the free trade of goods and services between EU member states. The Commission reviewed the new Belgian laws and found that them lacking. The Commission has had a really hard time over the past several years bringing the EU countries into compliance with gambling regulations that should be largely inclusive to foreign online casinos as well as state-run operations. The new Belgian legislation contains a clause that mandates that all Belgian-facing internet gambling companies be established within Belgium.

That is actually the least restrictive of the new Belgian laws as they pertain to foreign online casinos, other pieces of the legislation impose criminal sanctions against the foreign internet gambling companies that enter the Belgian market without a license, even if they are registered and licensed in the EU. Then, to top it off, there are only a limited number of planned licenses. Essentially, every part of the new legislation is designed to create a virtual monopoly on the Belgian online casino gambling industry.

A lot of Belgium’s policy looks remarkably similar to the French policies that were also rejected by the European Commission and subsequently changed so as not to incur further action from the European Court of Justice. Belgium has not yet indicated any sort of agreement to negotiate the terms of the new legislation and has added itself to the list of problem internet gambling companies that refuse to comply with the EUs policies as they related to online casino gambling.