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http://www.egrmagazine.com/news/886317/ec-green-paper-launched.thtml
http://www.egrmagazine.com/news/886317/ec-green-paper-launched.thtml
The European Commission will launch a public consultation on the EU’s patchwork of egaming laws today, as it publishes its long-awaited Green Paper on online gambling services in the internal market.
The information-gathering exercise follows the ECJ (recently renamed the Court of Justice of the EU or CJEU) considering a number of cases brought by European operators including Bwin, Ladbrokes and Betfair over being denied access to Member States’ gambling markets, in breach of single market protections enshrined in Articles 49 and 56 of the EU Treaty.
The Commission has also investigated the compatibility of the French and Italian licensing regimes with EU law (most recently in France), and expressed concerns over the proposals of Belgium and Romania. The EC however stopped all infringement proceedings it had launched against Member States when it began work on the Green Paper last year.
Clive Hawkswood of lobby group the Remote Gambling Association recently called for the industry to accept the EU has waived single market protections for egaming and to focus instead on harmonising regulatory standards between regimes.
Hawkswood said today that his organisation was looking forward to participating in the consultation, but warned this could be a lengthy process: “n the meantime many Member States will be bringing forward gambling legislation at a national level. It is vitally important that the European Commission takes all reasonable steps to ensure that those new regimes are fully compliant with EU law.”
Hawkswood pointed out that although the RGA agreed on the need to tackle issues such as problem gambling, fraud and money laundering, and would provide all assistance in this respect, it was “surprised the Green Paper barely raises the question about Member States’ restrictions on the freedoms of the Internal Market.”
He explained: “This lack of interest is surprising considering the number of pending infringement proceedings, the constant flow of referrals to the CJEU, the formal complaints from the industry and the Commission’s role as guardian of the Treaties”, said the head of the lobby group.
The RGA chief executive added that the ongoing denial of market access by EU states also served to restrict competition, innovation, consumer value and choice. “That in turn stifles the development of a sector where European-based companies are world leaders. We must avoid a situation whereby jurisdictions can hide behind the Green Paper process, and whatever work might flow from it, to implement regulations that quite clearly cannot be in compliance with the rules of the Internal Market.”