Netherlands says it will award 35 online gambling licences

[The Buzz]

Dutch regulator Kansspelautoriteit (KSA) confirmed on its website this week that it expects to grant around 35 licences for online gambling when iGaming regulation comes launches this year after being delayed in three different occassions.

From the KSA:

From 1 April, the Ksa will start processing applications for an online gambling license, after which the market in the Netherlands for online games of chance will open on 1 October.

The preparations for this have largely determined the activities in 2020.

René Jansen, chairman of the Ksa: "The Games of Chance Act, our current legal framework, dates from 1964. There was no question of digitization at the time. It was therefore high time for the Remote Gambling Act (Koa), which in fact supplements and changes the current law."

The Koa Act gives the Ksa a whole new market to supervise. This means that, in addition to handling license applications, the Ksa is also preparing for the situation that will arise if the market for online games of chance is open. The Ksa expects to issue approximately 35 online gaming licenses. These will mainly be companies that operate internationally. Preparations for the supervision of online gambling providers started in 2020. This is also reported in the 2020 Annual Report.

The KSA also reported that it made €8.2 million in gambling taxes in 2020, up 12.3%, plus €644,000 from fees, down 41.5%.

Read more here: https://kansspelautoriteit.nl/nieuws...slag-2020-ksa/

[ocreditor]

Is anyone knows what the mean ing of the merge of Belgium commission & Netherlands commission which is recently published?

Is it going to effect the Belgium licenses as well?

[wolfie]

There was no merging between the Belgium and Netherlands commissions. They just signed an agreement to work together and share knowledge. So there will be zero effect on Belgium licenses by the Dutch regulation.

[ocreditor]

There was no merging between the Belgium and Netherlands commissions. They just signed an agreement to work together and share knowledge. So there will be zero effect on Belgium licenses by the Dutch regulation.

Thanks for clarifying this