Position Papers

Digital Single Market

The European Gaming and Betting Association (EGBA) has joined with 15 other leading European trade associations – representing startups, SMEs, technology, advertising, digital, and media organisations – to call upon Members of the European Parliament (MEPs) to ensure that the proposed EU Digital Services Act (DSA) remains a workable, balanced, and future-proof legislation. In a joint letter, the associations outline a number of key recommendations for MEPs to consider.

European Commission Gambling Initiatives

Europe’s current online gambling regulation is highly fragmented causing many problems for consumers, gambling authorities and online gambling companies. Since the launch of the EU Digital Single Market the European Commission has been committed to deepening integration of the digital economy and ensuring consumers are better protected online. But that has not been the case for the millions of Europeans who gamble online. The most recent European Commission Communication on online gambling in Europe is from 2012 and, given major technological and regulatory developments since, is out of date and should be reviewed.

Digital Single Market

Ahead of the Transport, Telecommunications and Energy Council meeting of 4 December, businesses from across all sectors of the European economy would like to reiterate their concern about the proposal for an ePrivacy Regulation. Despite ongoing negotiations in the Council, the text remains far from addressing the many substantive issues that have been raised since the proposal was first put forward. We therefore urge Member States to signal clearly that negotiations with the European Parliament should not be rushed on the basis of a flawed text, which would have profound repercussions for the European economy.

European Commission Gambling Initiatives

The Greek Ministry of Finance (MoF) published a draft law and a consultation for the opening of the online gambling market. The consultation closed on 5 October 2018. The draft law aims in ending the current temporary licencing scheme and foresees the establishment of permanent licences of 5 years for live casino, live poker and betting, in order to modernise the current legal framework and follow European examples of best practices. The draft law, which partially amends the current law, establishes an extremely high licencing fee of 1m euros for live games and 4m euros for betting. It excludes RNG games such as roulette or black jack, while it foresees additional financial requirements: bank guarantees (500k euros), minimum capital (200k euros) and a fee of 10k euros to participate at the licencing procedure.

Anti-money Laundering

We, the European Gaming and Betting Association ( “EGBA” ), the association representing the leading online cross - border licensed gaming and betting operators in the European Union ( ”EU” ) , present this guidance document on the transposition of the Fourth Anti - Money Laundering Directive (hereinafter the “ Directive”).

Anti-money Laundering

We, the European Gaming and Betting Association ( EGBA ), the representative body of European Union regulated and licensed online gaming operators, would like to hereby share our point of view on the UK Government consultation on the t ransposition of the Fourth Anti - Money Laundering Directive (hereinafter “4 th AMLD”).