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The European Commission launched a formal investigation Tuesday into whether Denmark’s proposed low tax regime for online gambling sites gives internet operators an unfair advantage over bricks and mortar casinos, reports the Dow Jones news agency.
The much delayed introduction of a more open Danish online gambling market has been exacerbated by further complaints to the European Commission from local land casino operators and the local slot machine association, according to media reports surfacing over the weekend.
Denmark’s slow march toward the abandonment of its state monopoly on internet gambling is set to experience further delays, according to a Ladbrokes executive, and Betsson’s chief executive is undecided on whether the Swedish company will apply for a licence.
Last week’s new liberalising laws for Danish gambling, passed unanimously June 4 by the Folketinget (parliament) will have to go back to the European Commission for further consideration following complaints from land-based gambling companies that the tax provisions regarding online gambling are unfair.
July 1st promises to be a red letter day for Danish gambling as legislation comes into effect, for the first time legalising and licensing online gambling other than that through state monopoly Danske Spil.
Those canny Danes…in bowing to European Commission pressure to open up the online poker market, legislators have made sure their state monopoly Danske Spil gets a good start when online poker licensing comes into effect.
The consulting and research firm MECN has combined with the Horten law group to compile a new report that offers an in-depth analysis of Denmark’s gambling market, currently the subject of liberalisation moves that will take it out of the realm of state monopolised gambling.
Denmark’s draft law designed to appease the European Commission and create a more open but still limited online gambling market in the Scandinavian country ran into difficulties with the Commission this week.
A spokesman for Ladbrokes, which has challenged the Danish state gambling monopoly in the past, has indicated that the UK betting giant may be prepared to submit to regulation if the Scandinavian nation opens up its online gambling market.
The Danish government’s putative plans to censor the Internet by asking ISPs to block specified websites that reportedly include online gambling enterprises has come in for some stiff criticism this week in the Danish newspaper The Copenhagen Post.
The Danish government’s putative plans to censor the Internet by asking ISPs to block specified websites that reportedly include online gambling enterprises has come in for some stiff criticism this week in the Danish newspaper The Copenhagen Post.
The gambling news keeps coming thick and fast from the Scandinavian nations, with new revelations on the status of the Danish industry the latest to emerge.