The Netherlands’ long-dormant plans to liberalize its online gambling market have sparked back to life.

On Tuesday, the Netherlands’ Minister for Legal Protection Sander Dekker wrote a letter (viewable here, in Dutch) to the legislature’s Lower House, explaining the steps the Ministry was taking to ensure that future Dutch-licensed online gambling operators offer sufficient consumer protection measures.

The lower house approved the country’s Remote Gaming Bill nearly two years ago, but the bill has been languishing in the Senate ever since. Hopes are high that, with Dekker offering the new coalition government’s official thumbs-up, Dutch senators will pull their thumbs out and, in Dekker’s words, “vigorously” resume the legislative process.

Dekker’s letter also addressed the bill’s requirement for online licensees to establish a physical presence in the Netherlands. To ensure compliance with European Union rules on the free movement of goods and services, Dekker said only online licensees without a presence in the EU or European Economic Area must ensure “a secondary establishment” in the Netherlands.