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Norway's Online Casino Policy Whack

Norway doesn’t have a lot of support this month as the nation attempts to institute new online casino gambling policy in the country that directly goes against the cornerstone tenants of the European Union. The European Commission has been actively negotiating with Norway for years now about an open and monopoly-free internet gambling market to no avail. Norway’s newest announcement though, a ban on the processing of gambling transactions from foreign online casinos has been publicly blasted by the European Free Trade Association. The EFTA associated supported all of the Commission’s efforts with last week’s notification of Norwegian officials that the proposed ban on financial transaction is counter to free trade rules between members of the EFTA Internal Market.

The EFTA is a separate body from the EU and represents four countries actually, just Iceland, Norway, Switzerland, and Liechtenstein. This is a much smaller scale than the EU, but the EFTA actually has the ability to respond and act much more quickly than the EU where this case is concerned. Additionally, the EFTA’s actions align with the Commission’s assertions about an open and free-trade online casino gambling industry. This smaller body does act on behalf of the European Economic Agreement, and it seems that no matter which way you look at the situation, Norway is in the wrong with its anti-online casino gambling legislation.

The notice from the EFTA comes because the Association is unwilling to accept that Norway has just cause for implementing the online casino gambling ban. The thrust of the reasoning for the ban is nearly wholly profit and revenue driven and that just isn’t a strong enough justification and the EFTA is urging Norway to reconsider implementation of this ban.