DCMS, the British Department of Culture, Media and Sport, made an announcement concerning the fact that until the beginning of 2010 it will not be adding on any new operators to its White List. Those customers registered on Britain’s White List have received info concerning this activity.

Those included in the White List are the internet gaming operators which Britain has approved and are authorized to promote their products and services in British residing media. No further applicants can be currently accepted as the British government now wishes to examine the British Gambling Act. The Department of Culture, Media and Sport is currently carrying out a review to be finished by the end of this year and followed by it tabling in 2010 in Parliament. 

Bookmakers located in the UK pointed out that biased advantages were indulged by the White List’s offshore operators. Activity such as this by the British operators has spurred the review procedure for British internet gambling regulations. This is one of the globe’s most transparent legal systems. British operators wish to form an egalitarian game surface so that the internet gambling industry would have equal competitiveness. The issue becomes more complex because numerous EU members are not taking the European Commission directive too seriously which aims at opening up internet gambling to EU countries under honest competition.

Italy and France, for example, are not permitted to allow their British based internet gambling operators accessibility to their spheres and this evokes tension among the relevant countries.

The state of problem gambling will also be evaluated by the review. There is a deterioration in the British situation because internet gambling operators located in Britain are raising concern over inability to compete in the competing marketplace and claim that they will migrate to offshore areas where the limitations and taxing is more to their advantage. The crux of the matter is that this is an industry motivated by profit.

Posted on: August 19, 2009

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