Nederlandse Loterij is seeking a new supervisory board chair after Alexander Pechtold said he would step down from January 2026. Pechtold is due to become mayor of Delft in September, and the Ministry of Finance has begun looking for his successor.
The chair transition affects governance at the Netherlands’ state lottery operator.
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D66 nominated Eelco Eerenberg for the role of state secretary for finance in the Netherlands. The position includes oversight of state-owned Nederlandse Loterij and Holland Casino, as well as gambling tax. Eerenberg is expected to meet formateur Rob Jetten on Friday, the report said.
Nederlandse Loterij shareholders approved Raymond Knops as chair of the company’s supervisory board at their meeting on Friday. The appointment takes effect in the new year, succeeding Alexander Pechtold, who left after becoming mayor of Delft.
A serious PHP vulnerability that led several Dutch organisations to take websites offline did not cause confirmed outages at legal online gambling providers, CasinoNieuws.nl reported after checking 30 licensed sites. The Kansspelautoriteit took its own sites offline as a precaution and said registration in the Cruks self-exclusion register was not possible while DigiD was down. Oranje Palace said it does not use PHP, Unibet reported no problems, and Nederlandse Loterij took the TOTO Winkel site offline temporarily.
A serious vulnerability in the PHP programming language, which led several Dutch organisations to take websites offline as a precaution, had not caused confirmed outages at legal online gambling providers as of 21 October. The outlet said it checked the websites of 30 licensed online gambling providers and that all were reachable at the time of writing, and that logging in at all legal gambling sites worked without problems. CasinoNieuws.nl said it examined public technical characteristics of the gambling sites but could not establish which providers use the affected PHP software.
State Secretary Eelco Eerenberg has shared a plan for a further examination of Nederlandse Loterij’s future options. He intends to update the House of Representatives in the first quarter of 2027; results are expected in the second half of 2027.
State Secretary for Finance Eelco Eerenberg has shared a plan of approach for a further examination of the future options of Nederlandse Loterij, the state-owned lottery operator. In a letter to the House of Representatives, Eerenberg said he wants to begin the further examination immediately. He expects to be able to share the results with the House in the second half of 2027.
Lawyer Justin Franssen, a partner at Franssen Tolboom Attorneys at Law, accused the KSA of leaving existing enforcement powers unused against platforms carrying illegal gambling ads in the Netherlands. VNLOK chairman Björn Fuchs said the association's lawsuit seeks to compel Meta to fulfil its obligations under the EU Digital Services Act.
Lawyer Justin Franssen, a partner at Franssen Tolboom Attorneys at Law, said the KSA has the legal powers to act against Meta and other platforms that carry illegal gambling advertisements but does not use them. He made the accusation at the SBC Summit on Wednesday, according to a report of the panel. The Dutch online gambling trade association VNLOK has sued Meta, and its chairman, Björn Fuchs, set out what the association expects from the case.