Dutch Regulator Lays Out Future Priorities

By Brian Cullingworth, Last updated Jan 12, 2018

Kansspelautoriteit will focus particularly on protecting Dutch youth from gambling, and mitigating the effects of addiction

The Dutch gambling regulator Kansspelautoriteit laid out its future priorities this week in a website notification, joining other international regulators in underlining the importance of protecting youth from gambling, and the need for operators to fully embrace responsible gambling precautions against compulsive gamblers.

The regulator will be keeping a close eye on operators and how they market and operate their enterprises in regard to excluding minors and dealing with problem punters, and this will include online gambling operators once the new laws around that sector have been implemented.

The Kansspelautoriteit advisory noted that many online gambling operators, especially offshore businesses, have been contravening under-age betting rules and principles, on some occasions in the full knowledge of wrongdoing.

The regulator did acknowledge, however, that there are those who may have transgressed through ignorance or inattention.

Regardless, it is imperative that all operators fully commit to upholding the law and regulations, the regulator observed, advising that it will be exploring a variety of strategies to address the issues surrounding under-age, problem gambling and consumer protection over the coming two years.

Brian Cullingworth

Infopowa news was a staple of Casinomeister’s news from 2000 until 2019. Brian Cullingworth was the main writer, contributor, and was one of the most knowledgeable persons I have ever known involved in the online casino industry.

We first met in January 2001 at the ICE in London where I observed him going booth to booth interviewing online casino, software, and licensing jurisdiction representatives. Brian was also heavily involved with our forum as “Jetset“, he was involved as an informal consultant to eCOGRA, the OPA, and was a player advocate who assisted countless aggrieved players with his connections to industry folks. He also published “Casino Cautions” via Infopowa news for quite a number of years. These can be found in our news archives.

His passing in February 2019 was a dark day for us. He will be forever missed.