Problem Gambling the Focus of Latest Dutch Gaming Bill Draft

Remote Gambling Act to introduce Dutch national regulation of online gaming submitted to EU for approval.

The latest text of the Dutch Remote Gambling Act emphasizes measures to tackle the issue of problem gambling. The bill has now been sent to the EU Commission for approval before it returns to the Netherlands in three months.

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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 March 11, 2014.

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