Lithuania Plans Online Gaming Regulation for 2014

In advance of regulation, the EU member state may introduce ISP blocking.

Key Takeaways

The Lithuanian government has told Parliament that it plans to create a legal framework for online gambling for early 2014.
As a first step, it is likely that plans will be formulated to compel ISPs to block access to internet gambling sites.

Lithuania’s Deputy Finance Minister Vytautas Galvonas has confirmed government plans to actively supervise online gaming.

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Jocelyn Wood, Editor Joss is a graduate in English from the University of Birmingham and has a Master’s Degree in Organisational Development from the University of Manchester. His career path has taken him from the British Army, through business & finance to seven years as a successful professional poker player. His experience of the European Union, law, accounting, finance, regulation and online poker provide the basis for his insights in the PRO specialist categories of Industry and Law & Regulation. As CEO he steered his own company through full Financial Services Authority regulation, and was asked by Morgan Stanley to take their UK mortgage business through the same process. Although British, he lives in Arequipa, Peru, set high in the mountains and surrounded by volcanoes. He is married to a Peruvian and has three children.

Article published on October 18, 2013.

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