A long awaited review of off shore gambling in the UK is now being brought on shore as the Government are now seeing the need for regulation in the UK.

Bingosupermarket has campaigned hard in the past about bringing the regulation of UK targetted websites to the UK.

The Minister for torism and Heritage Mr John Penrose announced the proposals in a written statement on Thursday 14th July 2011.  He also commented that it is unfair to GB- licensed gambling operators that overseas competitors benefit from access to the market in Great Britain without bearing a fair share of the costs of regulation or of research, education and treatment of problem gaming.  That being said, it would suggest that the GB operators in this country are indeed subsidising the offline market at the moment so now is the opportunity for the land based market to ensure that the surplus created will be quite rightly given back to the UK operators.

The major change to be implicated is that remote gambling will be regulated from a point of consumption basis, therefore any operator from any country that sell into the British market will be required to hold a GB Gambling Commission Licence.  This will enable the operator to transact with British consumers and advertise in the UK.

Any operator in the world will be able to apply for a Gambling Commission Licence so the current white list will be phased out.

The Gambling Commission in the UK have highlighted deficiencies in some remote operators preventing underage play.  It is also wroth noting that recently Bingosupermarket was sent some data that would normally have been sent to the GB Gambling Commission that had a significant player data breach and would have had every confidence in the customers being protected and brought to a satisfactory conclusion, unfortunately the regulatory body that dealt with this breach asked us to remove the article and then ignored the emails we sent since to verify that the customers involved in the breach had been protected from further harm.  In fact the main concern the regulatory body raised with Bingosupermarket was that this did not make good business sense for us as they were the people that sponsored our site.  Bingosupermarket took the view and will always take the view that the interests of the customers always come first and we also back the fact that the GB Gambling Commission is the best regulator in the World and that is what operators should aspire to acheive.