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Rules Fully Approved

It seemed as thought the day would never come, but the French government has actually fully passed through the new regulations for the state that will legalize online casino gambling within France for foreign gaming sites. These new French regulations have been in the drafting and re-drafting process for over a year and there was a hope that they were going to take full effect on the first of this year. The approval process took a bit longer, however, and the French authorities have only this month fully signed off on the new online casino gambling regulations. That was the last internal step for the French regulations, now the European Commission is reviewing the regs and is expected to sign off on France’s new policies by the end of the month.

What that means for foreign online casinos is that formal French licensing of foreign gambling companies could begin as soon as next month. France has been operating a state monopoly for years now, but in an effort to more closely conform to the policies of the European Union regarding free trading of goods and services between EU member-states, France is in the process of creating a much more liberal online casino gambling market.

As much as there are several gaming companies pleased with this passage of the French regulations by the National Assembly in France, other companies claim that the French regulations still give favor to French licensed gaming sites over the foreign online casinos. The European Commission will fully investigate all of the complaints though before approving the new French regulations.