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    Default Dutch Government submits secondary gambling regulations

    The Dutch Government submitted the country’s secondary gambling regulations to the country’s official gazettes, adding a ban on using sports teams in advertisements and changing some rules around bonuses.

    The Dutch Remote Gambling Act was delayed a third time last month and is now set to come into effect on 1 April, with the online market set to open six months later.

    Bonuses may now be offered to players who do not explicitly opt in to receiving them. In addition, the blanket 60-day restriction on bonuses for players who have received an intervention because of their gambling habits has now been altered so that the length of the restriction now depends on the type of intervention made. In addition, lottery providers are no longer required to engage in addiction prevention courses as other operators are, as lotteries are not required to implement the same intervention policy, so it was determined that the course would be “superfluous."

    In addition, certain sporting events may not be available for wagering. In football, there would be a ban on offering bets matches in the Dutch third division or lower, matches in under-21 or younger age categories and friendly matches not organised by global governing body Fifa.

    From iGaming Business:

    The regulations, which had largely been submitted in consultations and to the European Commission, set out how online gambling may be conducted in the Netherlands once the vertical is legalised later this year.

    Earlier versions of the regulations already banned gambling businesses from using individual athletes in advertising in an effort to protect young people, as it said these athletes were likely to be seen as role models. Non-sporting celebrities with particular appeal to young people were later added as well.

    However, respondents to consultations pointed out that “sports teams are also role models for minors and young adults”, prompting these to also be covered by the ban, with an exception carved out for sponsorship of sports clubs.

    While the Government noted that some gambling operators may be concerned about the effect these marketing restrictions could have on channelisation, it said that player protection was more important, and argued that channelisation should not be an end in itself but rather was only valuable if the regulated market protected players.

    The rules also state that the processing fee for licences is set at €48,000.
    Read more here: https://igamingbusiness.com/dutch-on...icial-gazette/

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    kinda strange those rules. a ban on sports team ads, but all major sport teams now have a gambling sponsor... which is part of the exception. So what effect will this have? Zero! The big ones always do sponsoring, the small ones cant even affort the other options...

    Also, TOTO still uses ex-soccer players for its ads, it also targets young adults, which basically already is forbidden. Still this state owned company has never gotten any penalty nor is it urged to stop its current advertising methods... and yeah they where warned in the past, but they always find ways to balance the law....

    Same for the national lottery: they use lots of celebrities that surely are rolemodels for young adults. For example, what about “Jamai”, who was the finalist of idols... thats the definition of a celebrity tsrgetting a young audience...still he gives away millions for the state lottery pffffff...

    The market isnt even open yet and you already see lots of shady things... and it are the government gambling companies that are the most shadiest...it really is unbelievable...
    Life is a gamble

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    Thanks for sharing!

    Oh, I'm totally agree with mediapartner about government gambling companies.

    I think this issue is very common for lots of countries. The government create laws and rules only for private companies but not for themselves.
    And that's said to understand that small companies have really low chances to survive.

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    It's common everywhere I guess. Governments disapprove of all kinds of gambling activities / advertisments on one hand. And on the other, create some sort of government issued company that does just that. I have seen it happen all over the place. It's just an attempt to monopolize the business as much as possible. A successful one I might add.

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