Update on online gambling in the Netherlands: licence holders will not be allowed to use their existing Dutch customer databases

Recently, the Minister’s answers to the latest round of questions in respect of the Remote Gambling Decree were sent to the Dutch parliament. Roelien van Neck and Tessa van den Ende elaborate on the updates that were vested in those answers and discuss in particular the announcement that applicants who are granted an online licence (“licence holders’’) will not be allowed to use any existing Dutch customer databases.