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Malta Investigating France

The new French online casino gambling regulations have not really sat very well with many of the internet gambling companies and foreign licensing jurisdictions also operating in the European Economic Area. These international licensing jurisdictions follow all of the standards set out by the European Commission and license online casinos according to all of the highest industry standards laid out my watchdog and European independent organizations. The Maltese government is not pleased by the fact that France is currently implementing the new gambling regulations despite knowing that the European Commission has expressly not approved the regulations based on unfair pieces of the regulations that give clear bias toward French based companies.

The Maltese government has actually gone so far as to launch formal objections to the French regulations and it is these objections that have slowed down France’s process of currently legalizing certain internet betting and poker sites, though not the online casinos right now. Although French licenses have been chosen the French online casino gambling regulations dictate that these companies must be a French operator to operate internet poker in particular – a bizarre distinction within the newly liberalized market that is only serving to create conflict within the European market and continue to exclude some legalized licensed sites out of jurisdictions such as Malta, the Isle of Man, and others.

Because Malta has filed specific objections to the online casino poker licenses that were just issued all of the licensed internet betting sites can launch their French facing businesses but the newly licensed poker sites must wait until the issue is formally resolved with the European Commission.