The Remote Gambling Association (RGA) has noted the opposition of Santa Casa da Misericordia de Lisboa (“SCML”) to the government’s plans to regulate the online sports betting market, but the RGA believes that a viable and competitive market in the future would benefit not just consumers and the government, but Santa Casa as well.

The EC today made a number of recommendations that are designed to help Member States provide a high level of consumer protection for online gamblers. These measures follow the adoption of the Action Plan on Online Gambling in October 2012, which aimed to pave the way for a comprehensive framework on...

Brussels, 15th May 2014: The regulated betting industry welcomes the main findings of a European Commission funded study on sports organisers’ rights in the European Union. The study (see link) finds that there is no legal basis nor rationale for an EU-wide right to consent to bets (i.e. “sports betting right”).

The main trade associations for each of the five sectors of the gambling industry have been working together for some time on responsible gambling initiatives. The establishment of IGRG formalises those arrangements and provides a structure to better promote socially responsible gambling in the British gambling market. Building on existing...

Today, the European Parliament adopted amendments to the European Commission’s proposal for a new Anti-Money Laundering Directive (AMLD). The RGA strongly supports the objectives of the new Directive, but is disappointed that online gambling has been singled out as the one form of gambling where due diligence measures...

London, 3 March 2014: The Remote Gambling Association (“the RGA”), GamCare and the Gordon Moody Association launched today a project to provide assistance to people who may have a problem gambling and want to self-exclude from online gambling websites. The initiative, which was conceived at a meeting of...

Individual members of the Remote Gambling Association (RGA) applied to the Greek State, as legally represented primarily by the Minister of Finance, and the Hellenic Gambling Commission (HGC) for online gambling licences in July 2013. They received an answer by the HGC that it is not competent to examine the applications and no response from the Ministry of Finance.

Today, the European Commission announced that it has formally opened a series of infringement proceedings against a number of EU Member States whose laws on gambling appear to be in breach of the rules of the internal market. In doing so, the Commission has sent a reasoned opinion to Sweden which had...

A KPMG study, commissioned by The Remote Gambling Association (RGA), has concluded that HM Treasury’s place of consumption tax regime for online gambling is likely to fail to achieve its aims unless the rate of gross profits tax is no higher than 10% and it makes allowances for companies to offset costs associated with bonuses and incentives.

The report on online gambling in the internal market prepared by the IMCO committee was adopted today in plenary session by the European Parliament. While the RGA welcomes certain positive aspects of the report, it is disappointing that in places it contains unsubstantiated views about the online gambling sector and these appear to have been...

The Remote Gambling Association has written to the European Commissioner to demand that he acts to prevent anti-competitive reforms to Greek gambling law. The opening of the Greek online gambling market is under threat from amendments which will result in OPAP being gifted an illegal online monopoly against European Union law.

The Remote Gambling Association has written to the Hellenic Gaming Commission to ask it to stop reviewing the licences of companies held by legitimate operators in Greece. The trade association believes that the real reason for interviewing the operators who have been granted an interim online gambling licence...