Authorities may, in the assignment, by september 1, report to the government with a report on what steps they are taking to gaming companies should follow the new spellagen.
the Authorities shall also report on what effects their actions had.
in the gaming industry that I want to see improvement when it comes to spelreklamen. If there is satisfactory change, the government will act. In order to be able to act faster if necessary, we strengthen now supervision, ” says civilminister Ardalan Shekarabi in the press release.
He has previously called the industry to a meeting at the ministry of finance with the reason of just spelreklamen, which he thinks is all for the extensive and aggressive. It resulted in an ultimatum where the bookmakers got the requirement that the actual limit to the much-discussed marketing.
on the steps before the last of march to take the government of ”coercive action”. It has been speculated whether the advertising may be prohibited entirely, as in Italy, and civilministern himself has said that he does not exclude any options.
The new spellagen came into force at the end of the year. So far, 69 gaming been granted a license to the Swedish market for online gambling or sports betting.
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the Text is updated.
