Consumer protection organisation criticises Dutch gambling advertising code

Consumentenbond (CB) has quit discussions with Dutch gambling companies and the advertising code commission regarding the advertising code

Consumentenbond (CB) has quit discussions with Dutch play companies and the advertising inscribe charge regarding the publicizing code.

CB, a non-profit organisation promoting consumer protection, considers the publicizing inscribe to be flawed and wants to prevent it from coming into core when online gaming becomes legal inwards the Nederland on 1 October.

The purport of the discussions was to concord on both whole step and limits of the gambling-related ads number, but according to the Consumentenbond, the gambling companies get not succeeded to amount upward with a encipher to protect vulnerable and at-risk players.

The initial publicizing project included a demarcation line of trine ads per video publicizing block, but it will non follow implemented. CB also objected to a proposal of ads being fronted past celebrities as the audience for said ads would follow made upwardly of 30% children and adolescents. Current online play lawmaking limits television advertising to after 9pm.

CB Director Sandra Molenaar said: “An advertising write in code needs to hold conditions which are to a greater extent stringent than laws. But what has been proposed so far past the gaming sphere is offering to a lesser extent protection, not more. That’s no more good.”

Among the decade winners of a licence to bring home the bacon online gaming in the Dutch market, at that place are 2 companies owned past the Dutch res publica (the Holland Casino and the state lottery companionship Nederlandse Loterij). Both companies’ licences grant them to offering roulette, fire hook and sports betting.

Fair Play and BetCity (also Dutch people companies) on with sextuplet strange firms (four based inwards Malta, one in the UK and another unity in Belgium) make had their licences sanctioned and testament bid online gambling starting with 1 October.

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