As a reminder of the Remote Gambling Act, the Netherlands gambling regulatory authority, Kansspelautoriteit, unveiled a trademark operators are required to display across digital portfolios. These include websites and mobile apps.
The agency will launch the change April 1. Consumers click on the trademark and end up at the KSA licensing page. With guidance from the Dutch House of Representatives the KOA was amended to include new technical standards, according to SBCNews.
Additional changes insisted gambling operators comply with the statutory duties of the IMF guidelines on money laundering and anti-terrorist financing.
In other news on the Netherlands, gambling regulatory agencies in the Netherlands and Belgium have formed a collaboration to share ideas, insights, information and more in an efforts to improve regulatory and market monitoring,
Management teams from the Netherlands gambling regulator Kansspelautoriteit and Belgium’s Gaming Commission Kansspelcommissie will also deal with shared threats and addiction prevention, according to SBCNews.
“Online games of chance are offered across borders. As a result, there is a greater need for international cooperation between regulators on (online) games of chance. Information exchanges with foreign colleagues are always very instructive,” said the Belgium agency president, Magali Clavie.
Such agreements have already existed between the Netherlands and the Swedish Gambling Authority, Malta Gaming Authority and the L’Autorité Nationale des Jeux in France.
“Such a memorandum of understanding forms a good basis for sharing knowledge, collaboration and a smooth exchange of information. At the same time, a clear signal is being sent to providers of games of chance that they are joining forces internationally,” said René Jansen, chairman of the board of directors of the KSA.
In related news, the KSA received authorization to grant a monopoly on organizing state lotteries. Betfair and the Dutch Online Gambling Association opposed the monopoly system, but their appeals were rejected.
The same question arose in 2018 and the same response was accepted from the KSA.
The Administrative Jurisdiction Division ruled March 10 that the KSA can continue to issue a single lotto license to Lotto BV while issuing multiple charity lottery licenses, according to iGaming Business.
Why the divergence? The goal of the Lotto is to have as many people as possible gamble through a legal provider, making it critical the market not be split up among different providers.
To do otherwise could mean no provider would emerge as powerful enough to present a large prize pool. The number of draws for Lottos far eclipses those for charity lotteries, where proceeds for charity lotteries are much smaller.
