Belgium Minister for Justice, Koen Geens, has been given the nod by the Council of Ministers to craft a system of curbs on the way gambling services are advertised on local broadcast media. Minister Geens first announced that he was working on such a bill on the matter back in June.
Among the new restrictions are a complete ban on gambling advertising during live sports events, regardless of the medium through which these events are broadcast, so no TV, radio, webcasts or extremely dexterous rooftop semaphore antics.
Belgium’s legalized gambling market was first established in 1999. The Betting and Gaming Act, the country’s gambling law, was adopted that year to allow the provision of different forms of games of chance within the country’s borders.
Minister Geens, who is member of the Christian Democratic and Flemish (CD&V) party, said earlier this year that certain changes need to be introduced to the Act, ones that would limit significantly sports betting operators in advertising their services on broadcast media in a manner that could potentially encourage minors and other vulnerable people into gambling.
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Source: GMB / Casino News Daily
