Online gambling operators who ‘actively’ target Dutch gamblers will be excluded from the new regulated market, at least temporarily.

On Friday, Netherlands Justice Minister Sander Dekker provided his written response to three questions put to him by the Dutch Senate during Tuesday’s debate on the Remote Gaming Bill. Local publication Gaming in Holland posted the letter (read it here, in Dutch) and we’ll recap the highlights below.

To the question of which international operators will be eligible for a new Dutch online license, Dekker said he wished to exclude “illegal operators who continue to actively [emphasis by Dekker] focus on the Dutch market.” Dekker noted that his preferred terminoloy for such operators was “cowboys.”

Dekker appeared to define ‘actively’ as operators who offer customers the use of popular Dutch payment processor iDeal, use a Dutch domain name or market directly to Dutch customers.