This was raised by Michel Groothuizen, Chairman of Dutch gambling regulator Kansspelautoriteit (KSA), in a letter addressed to Jetten and all other policymakers part of the new coalition government.
“The new cabinet wants to ‘protect the vulnerable from profiteers’. There Jetten easily finds us on his side,” Groothuizen said in his statement.
“With the further ‘strengthening the duty of care of online gambling providers’ and the ‘harder tackling of illegal gambling sites’, the ambitions of the new cabinet also fit seamlessly with those of the KSA.”
However, the KSA Chair expressed concern on several points in the coalition’s seventy-page manifesto, which he said are “well-intentioned” but could prove “not very helpful”.
The first provision mandates a full ban on online gambling advertisements, on top of an already existing ban on gambling sp..