The first German state to withdraw from the national ban on online casinos will aolmost certainly not be the last.

The German attempt to maintain the state gambling monopoly and bar foreign online casinos may crumble from within. The state of Shleswig-Holstein has promised to open its gaming market to private gambling operators, and withdraw from the agreement among German states to ban online casinos.

The German State Treaty on Gaming united Germany's states insupport of the national Internet gambling monopoly, claiming that doing so is the only viable means of protecting consumers. However, EU findings indicate the move is more financially motivated, protecting the state gaming system from licensed competition by EU online casino operators.

Now, as Schleswig-Holstein becomes the first state to reject the federal reasoning, other states are rumored to be primed to follow suit and allow competitive online gambling in their borders.

Opening the market to EU competition would relieve Germany of potentially costly infringement proceedings by the European Commission. And consumers across Europe are demanding that state protectionist blocks be removed to allow choice in online gambling systems.

Even if some form of the monopoly is presently maintained, the State Treaty ends in 2012, permitting states to license online casinos freely after that point.

Published on October 29, 2009 by K.C.Carmichael

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