Recent developments and perspectives of remote gambling regulations in Europe have been debated during the panel discussions at the conference organised in Paris, University Cergy-Pontoise on the 28th January 2014. The debate was launched by M. Charles Coppolani, Chief of Department for economic and financial control at the Ministry of Finance and discussed among regulators of Denmark, Belgium, German Land Schleswig-Holstein and the major licensed operators in France. Egla has introduced the Italian online gambling model comparing it with France online gambling regulation.
Italy and France have strong dissimilarities in the aims of the regulation and in the remote gambling products system strategies. Nonetheless GGR are comparable (according to our estimations, online gambling GGR in Italy was of 720 million euros compared to 686 million euros in France) and tools for online players’ protection are similar as regards access to the games, games activity and gambling marketing conducts (where self-regulation has been further detailed in law provisions). Both countries are witnesses of the initial effort made by the lawmakers to put in place a balanced regulation to answer consumers’ demand while ensuring a high level of protection of the players without damaging the economical efforts carried out by the licensees to operate in a regulated market. Several years after the entry into force of these regulations, this balancing is to be renewed in order to maintain regulated markets more successful.
