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Europe Daily Bulletin No. 10073
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GENERAL NEWS / (eu) eu/gambling

No need to legislate to bring further funding to sports, says online gambling association

Brussels, 08/02/2010 (Agence Europe) - At the end of January, the Remote Gambling Association (RGA) published a report it had commissioned. The report found that the argument presented by sports that a European legal mechanism was required to permit greater control over the betting product and to enforce additional payments from licensed gambling operators “does not appear to be valid, necessary or proportionate”. There is ample income within the professional sporting sector to fund both...

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