Gambling concerns British and Irish parliament

In Great Britain, a parliamentary committee is currently examining the role of the UKGC when the National Lottery’s license was awarded in the country. Now the British supervisory authority is said to have written to the parliamentary committee. The parties also discuss gambling in Ireland.

Letter from the UKGC to British Parliamentary Committee

According to reports from the Financial Times last Thursday, the UK Gambling Commission – in short UKGC – The members of the British Parliament warned to endanger the licensing process of the licenses. A member of the parliament – Julian Knight – is said to have submitted a letter to the Financial Times. In this, the Chief Executive AT Gambling Commission – Andrew Rhodes – should have expressed itself as follows: “It would be a considerable risk of the integrity of the competition if the gambling commission, one of the applicants or a person involved in the competition would have to present in this sensitive phase of the competition. “

Since the UK Gambling Commission is currently checked by the British parliament for the effectiveness of the authority, it is under very great pressure. It is not the first time that the UKGC is under criticism. Half a year ago in February, the National Audit Office published its criticism of the performance of this public office. At that time, the newspaper The Guardian reported that the National Audit Office of the UKGC had accused no adaptation to the technical changes to the market. The supervisory authority is “hindered by inflexible financing and limited funds associated with it”. This made the accusation that the gambling supervisory authority cannot guarantee effective consumer protection. Damage caused by gambling could not effectively avert the authority from consumers.

Declaration of confidentiality represents the problem

In July, Knight announced the UKGC’s review with regard to the monitoring of the National Lottery. However, this is made more difficult by a declaration of confidentiality that has signed interested gambling providers in the license award. Accordingly, the license applicants could not criticize the current owner of the license. Public comments and statements with regard to the award process would have to be discussed with the UK Gambling Commission beforehand. If applicants still submit statements to the award process and thus violate the agreement, it would automatically be excluded from the award process.

Compared to the Financial Times, the UKGC declared “it respected that a review is considered necessary”. However, all applicants would be reminded of the obligation to maintain confidentiality. The companies Sisal-an American lottery provider-and Sazka-a Czech gambling provider-should also be affected by this. Such a strict confidentiality is justified by the fact that fairness and integrity in the competition for the license allocation of the British National Lottery could be guaranteed.

New gambling regulations in Ireland?

According to a draft law, which was brought up by the Irish Republican opposition party Sinn Féin, numerous restrictions and measures for player protection could be introduced. The party served gambling regulations from other European countries in which gambling is considered to be “well regulated”. In Ireland, many modern forms of gambling are unregulated, despite repeated announcement by the government. According to party spokesman Thomas Gould, this is a scandal. He told the media that according to a European study, many young people in Ireland took part in gambling due to a lack of regulations. “As far as the online gambling, gaming and other ways are concerned, we have no regulation on which people play. That is scary and incredible. “

Even if the party in Sligo has recently taken care of the preservation of two venues, it is now calling for regulations at the national level. Because of the fact that regulations for modernity Gambling, i.e. in the online sector, the behavior of the party is less paradoxical than it initially appears.