Slovakia’s president has vetoed his country’s new gambling regime, which would have opened up the online market to international operators for the first time.

On Friday, President of Slovakia Andrej Kiska issued a statement saying he refused to approve the online gambling regulations issued by the Ministry of Finance this spring and approved by the legislature earlier this month. Kiska (pictured) claimed to have “reservations that prove the error of the whole concept of the approved law.”

Kiska claimed that the new gambling rules contained insufficient consumer protection measures. For instance, Kiska wants all individuals who have declared personal bankruptcy to be included in the country’s national gambling exclusion registry.

Kiska also found fault with the legislation’s requirement for online gamblers to submit digital copies of their Citizen’s Card for identification verification. Kiska wondered if there was “a better way of demonstrating the eligibility to play gambling that would not pose a risk for the protection of sensitive and misleading personal data.”