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MINISTER
PROPOSES INTERNATIONAL REGULATION FOR ONLINE CASINOS
( Jan 31, 2006)
Reiterates the need for stringent online casino gambling control
British government officials were again proposing
internationally consistent regulations for online casinos and
Internet poker card rooms this week.
Speaking in the House of Commons, Richard Caborn, the minister
responsible for land based and online gambling, raised the
possibility of international restrictions to protect internet
casino and poker gamblers.
Mr Caborn said that Tessa Jowell, the Culture Secretary, would
be inviting her foreign counterparts "...to see whether we can
look at some international regulation whereby we can look at
these issues of problem gambling on the internet". He said that
his department planned to involve credit card issuers in
discussions.
The proposal to put together an international summit to create
better and more consistent international regulation for online
gambling was enthusiastically received by many Internet gambling
bodies when it was suggested earlier this month, and both the
new UK Gambling Commission and government offices in Britain
were bombarded with requests from interested parties for more
information and expressing support.
Several licensing jurisdictions and private standards bodies
such as eCOGRA have been exchanging views and information on
their systems and regulations for some time, and this has
already led to the Kahnawake and Malta jurisdictions signing
cooperation agreements with eCOGRA concerned the acceptability
of outcomes-based gambling software verification, operational
and probity checking requirements and player dispute resolution
channels.
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