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New EU Developments

The European Union has long been a battleground over the past several years as the European Commission mandates that EU member-states drop state run monopolies and embrace the single market EU policies, even regarding online casino gambling. Several EU countries have continued to contest the Commission’s mandates toward compliance and have scored a bit of a victory in Europe’s top court this week, the European Court of Justice. The ECoJ just ruled that EU member-states do have the right to block online casinos and gambling companies that are not licensed within their country – this is a completely different policies that that which the Commission has been pushing for the past several years.

The ECoJ’s ruling takes into account the fact that a country has the right to protect consumers –that the safety of the gamblers comes before the single-market EU policies. The online casinos are fearing a lot of backlash from EU member-states that have put up with many companies forcing their way into these markets. This is now no longer completely legal as the Commission has previously pretty much supported. As a way to offer a boon to the online casino companies though, the ECoJ did note that all EU countries blocking foreign competition would have to prove that the blocks and legislation were in place as way to protect citizens and not as a way to develop a protectionist market.

This case is setting a whole new trend in the UK and Europe and the online casinos are unclear of where how this will effect the entire cohesive European gambling market. Although the court ruled that a state does have the right to block European licensed gaming sites, there are still restrictions and yet no outline of how these restrictions should be implemented.