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Landscape in Major Changes

The landscape of the European online casino gambling industry seems to simply change and alter overnight. European countries are increasingly looking for ways to really strongly protect their gambling markets through licensing and taxation regulations. And while this practice is completely acceptable according to the European Union, to place safeguard regulations and controls, there are certain fair trade standards that all EU member-states must meet when they are implementing new rules because of the trade agreements that these countries signed into when they entered the EU. Unfortunately, some nations are just not as agreeable to a completely open EU online casino market and they have begun to cause real issues.

The major online casinos operating in the EU market have been incredibly patient for the past several years – more than three years in fact. The European Commission has actively been monitoring and working on the situation for several years and there has been only minor progress. There were once well over a dozen EU nations violating the free trade policies in regard to the online casino industry. That number is very slowly coming down, but just as the Commission makes progress with countries like France, Estonia goes and puts itself on the list just this month with highly exclusive regulations.

The bottom line of the EU situation is the fact that many of the more prominent EU member-states simply do not agree that the EU policies concerning free trade of goods and services also applies to the online casino industry. That is the crux of the issue and so far the European Court of Justice has not really done a great job of clarifying the situation.