Swedish regulator deems temporary measures difficult to assess

The Swedish Gambling Authority (SGA) has said it is “difficult to assess” what impact temporary liability measures had on public health and consumer protection

The Swedish Gambling Authority (SGA) has said it is “difficult to assess” what wallop temporary liability measures had on public wellness and consumer protection.

In evaluating online play restrictions assign inward set due to Covid-19, the regulator stated that it cannot easy attribute any developments to these temporary measures solo as the pandemic and young gambling regularisation will also have played a role.

The SGA has submitted its meanwhile account to Sweden’s government, outlining what effects liability measures may make had on job gambling.

These measures came into ram on 2 July 2020 and were eventually lifted on 14 November 2021. They were originally introduced inwards response to a purported ascending inwards job play due to the pandemic, and included a SEK 5,000 ($525) pileus on deposits at online casinos and a corresponding red confine for expansion slot machines.

But inward determining what impact such restrictions feature had on public wellness and consumer protection, the SGA has come up upwardly empty-handed.

While only when quaternary months experience elapsed since the measures were lifted, and a more in-depth describe is due later, the regulator has thusly far found it difficult to secernate which developments occurred as a result of said measures, and which were caused to a greater extent by Covid-19.

“It is currently non possible to set what burden the pandemic has had. Against this background, it is also non possible for the Swedish Gambling Authority to assess the consequences of the temporary ordinance for public health,” remarked the regulator inwards its lag report.

“It is also non possible to check what the development would make looked similar had the provisional regulation not been introduced.”