New Code of Conduct

May 9, 2008

The International Responsible Gambling Code of Conduct has been gathering support since its initial outing at the European Interactive Gaming Expo last October. A lot of support has come from places like the Interactive Gaming Council (IGC), the European Gaming and Betting Association (EGBA) and eCOGRA since its release.

These groups are working together to come up with a plan for revising and writing this code, and they will expect online gambling firms to comply. They are simply saying that these are minimum requests for online gambling assurances and a way of handling themselves when participating in the online casino industry.

They say that the most important parts of this is to protect their players and to promote responsible gambling. Everyone will be responsible for adhering to the code. They say that protecting their players from themselves as well as those out there that would do them harm is their main concern.

They have enlisted the help of the gambling group, GamCare to help those that cannot help themselves, and to stave off those who aren’t quite there yet. They know that they will be instrumental in helping them write the code for all of the online casinos to follow.

They are going to focus on key points like protecting children and young adults from underage online gambling, player protection, customer communications, help for those who might be starting to have problems, the ability to self-exclude, and advertising focusing on those that are legal to gamble – among other topics. They all say that they have always felt that they adhered to this code, but they want others to do it as well.




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