Publié le 09/12/2012
Belgian online gambling at a critical moment further to European Commission action
So far, the Belgian online gambling market’s attractiveness was somewhat affected by two restrictions contained in the Belgian Gaming Act: the offline requirement further to which online operators need to hold an equivalent land-based license to operate online and the numerus clausus principle imposing a limitation of the number of offline licenses granted. After the European Commission’s release of the Action Plan on online gambling in October 2012, Belgium has been summoned by the European Commission to justify its gambling legislation.