Netherlands Sends More iGaming Regulations For EC to Review

The Government of Netherlands has submitted more online gaming regulation details to European Commission for their review. The upcoming gambling legislation will be commented on by stakeholders and interested parties.

They will be providing feedback on this legislation until November 13th. Until then, the EC must evaluate the legislation and its compatibility with laws of European Union.

The Gist of New Info

The Dutch legislation itself…

…includes technical standards details as well as licensees reporting requirements. Also, it details the intervention measures each licensee must take when a player shows signs of problem gambling.

Such measures include the requirement that operators should intervene in several ways: by highlighting a player’s behavior by providing data on their gambling or advising them to use resources for treating problem gambling.

Also, they can encourage them to set their spending limits or playing times or to self-exclude.

The licensee must provide comprehensible and clear explanations to players on the reason why each intervention measure was chosen.

Further Details

Licensed operators will need to submit yearly reports with information on the amount of registered players and number of due diligence checks. The report must also contain the number of rejected registrations, suspended integrity breaches and number of received complaints.

The regulatory body, Kansspelautoriteit (KSA) can request those reports more frequently than once a year.

In addition to all this, licensed operators need to record information on each player’s registration – such as, total money data and time they spent on various games.

Also, they must make record of the details of integrity investigations and transaction details.

It was previously revealed that negative events in sports – such as yellow or red cards in football – may not be subjects of bets, nor any events that have no impact on the outcome of the match.

Dutch Remote Gambling Act was introduced in the House of Representatives back in 2014 and was approved by the Upper House in February 2019.

It will come into effect in January 2021, while licensees will be permitted to launch their operations in July the same year.

Source:

“Netherlands submits remote gambling regulations for EC approval”, gamingintelligence.com, August 18th, 2020.