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US gambling regulations influence on EU operators
June 23, 2009, 5:51 am (2 years ago)Malta’s Independent newspaper featuring an article by David Lindsay about the influence of US inequitable regulations against online gambling operators in licensing authorities such as Malta, Gibraltar and the UK, and to a minor level Ireland, Sweden, Cyprus and Austria.
European online gambling and betting companies departed the US market in 2006, but still experience legal proceedings by US authorities anchored in their past events in the US market. The report comes to the close that these proceedings are lawfully baseless in addition to biased, because the activities of EU companies carried out under the cover of US World Trade Organization commitments.
The European Commission, driven by protests from European operators on the discriminating enforcement of anti-online gambling regulations the US in spite of its World Trade Organization agreements, examined the issue and lately issued a derogatory report on the the US actions.
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