The European Union has today officially measures against Germany and Sweden has been initiated. It is about the fact that both countries online gambling operators from other countries, access to the domestic gambling market it. Germany and Sweden have in recent months has strengthened measures to encourage Internet gambling ban or restrict. Gambling operators from other European countries may use their services in the two countries do not offer, although the ban largely by encouraging the state gambling monopoly provider in its position to strengthen against foreign competition. The actions of the two countries are in breach of the EU guidelines on the open international trade in this market sector.
Both Sweden, and Germany now have two months to the official note from the EU to respond. If the two countries can not prove that their current laws to conform with EU requirements, is this case to the European Court of Justice passed on.
The official note to Germany was as expected drafted relatively quickly, because some providers of online gambling against the actions of Germany in relation to online gambling, had protested. The law against online gambling has been signed by all 16 federal states ratified and came into force on 01 January in force. Due to the new online gambling laws is virtually banned in Germany, the law also contains a passage which the settlement of payments to online gambling prohibits providers.
 
The measures against Sweden, which the EU is now under way, relate directly to poker – both live, as well as online. The poker offering in Sweden is very limited and is sold exclusively by the Swedish government. This includes online poker that only the state-owned Svenska Spel provider may be offered. In the EU's official note will be noted that Sweden, foreign gambling operators may not prohibit their services on the Swedish market, while at the same time, in our own country only through state poker provider may be offered.
The providers of online gambling had not long been reluctant to put the EU on. The European Gambling and Betting Association [EGBA], which the eight largest online gambling companies represented, welcomed the measures taken by the EU against the two countries. EGBA secretary general Sigrid Ligne says: "The fact that already 30 days after the entry into force of the law of a reaction of the EU took place, shows us the determination of the European Union against the restrictions, since these laws do not serve the consumer and not in the public interest were adopted. The events in the U.S. show that a ban is not the solution. Trustworthy, highly respected gaming operators had to leave the U.S. market and it was a gray market in which there are no guidelines on consumer protection, there, in which no protection against gambling and no provision exists for the protection of minors are taken. " Several other gambling companies, which no member of the EGBA, have also their support for the EU's action expresses.
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