While I’m very optimistic about the next few years, it remains somewhat striking that a progressive country like the Netherlands turned out to be one of the last countries in Europe that allowed online gambling. I sincerely believe this will create a rather amusing market situation, as the Dutch gambling authority will allow both Dutch and foreign operators to offer their gambling products to players based in the Netherlands. The Remote Gambling Act (Kansspelen op Afstand, Koa) came into effect on Apofficially initiating the licence application process for interested operators.Īfter the Dutch gambling authority Kansspelautoriteit (KSA) granted the first licences on the 29th of September 2021, the first regulated online casinos opened their virtual doors in the Netherlands on the 2nd of October 2021. The new Remote Gambling Bill allowing online games of chance was adopted in the Netherlands in February 2019 after almost a decade of debate and division.
