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New Regulations in Norway

Norway has announced new online casino gambling regulations and legislation are set to take effect just next month, in August 2009. The European Commission has been in negotiations with Norway, as well as nearly a dozen other EU member states, about the nation’s legislation that interferes with the EU policies supporting the free trade of goods and services between EU member states. Although the Commission has been aggressively pursuing Norway, the regulations are precisely counter to the change Commission is trying to affect. Basically, Norway has announced that the new regulations due out in August are designed to strengthen the state monopoly and block Norwegian financial transactions with foreign internet casinos.

The news that Norway is firming up the online casino gambling monopoly regulations is sad news for the Commission, and the internet gambling industry. The Commission has been working on these countries for years now and has even begun to threaten the countries with European Court of Justice action, but to no avail. The newly proposed laws, that are set to take effect in just a couple of weeks, attempt a blocking of financial transactions much like the failed US legislation. Online casinos are actually fairly safe in the EU –each nation has controls in place and the licensing jurisdictions are strict and reputable.

Despite that fact though, several EU nations insist that the monopoly laws are in place to protect state gamblers from the predatory and unsafe foreign online casinos. What’s really sticky about the whole situation is the fact that Norway is actually beginning to strongly embrace internet gambling at the state-monopoly level. The Commission has gained the support of the EFTA Surveillance Authority (ESA) now and the ESA sent a reminder/warning notification to the Norwegian government concerning the planned implementation of these questionable laws.