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EGamingReview reports that the European Commission has given to the Danish Government a month to amend its draft law regulating gaming and betting websites to make it compliant with EU laws. The Danish draft law was originally submitted to the European on 7 July 2009 and the European Commission has now issued its opinion alleging that the draft law is not in line with EU law.
According to the available information, the Danish draft law prescribed, among others, the monopoly of pool betting and the introduction of measures blocking the access to websites run without a Danish gaming license as well as the blocking of the financial transactions performed by Danish residents through these websites.
If the provisions referred above are the reasons of the negative opinion from the European Commission this measure sounds quite singular considering that the European Court of Justice has just backed the Portuguese gaming monopoly and the blocking of access to non-licensed websites is a measure implemented in Italy from 2007.
The opinion issued by the European Commission is not publicly available, but it will be interesting to see how the Danish Government will answer to such opinion.
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