R.G.A. REPORT ON SPORTSBETTING INTEGRITY
15 January 2010
Keenly anticipated report will be unveiled at
the Betting Show this month
Over the past six months the UK online gambling trade
body, the Remote Gambling Association, has been engaged
in a wide-ranging consultation on sports betting
(including horse and greyhound racing), most notably
with regard to commercial and integrity issues.
This has been response to an increasing focus on the
sports betting and corruption issue, notably by some EU
member states and sporting organisations in recent
years.
The principle focus of the consultation,
in which a DCMS official on secondment to the RGA has
been involved, is to explore the situation in more
detail and present RGA members with an informed and
objective overview.
"It is our intention to
identify ways in which the relationship with national
and international sporting organisations might usefully
be developed. The main international sporting
organisations, such as the IOC and FIFA, have been
approached to respond to the consultation, as have all
of the EU’s Member States and a number of other
interested parties," an RGA spokesman said recently.
The consultation has additionally been open to any
party that had an interest. There were four
questionnaires specifically designed for: sporting
organisations; governments and gambling regulators;
non-RGA betting operators and trade associations; and
other interested parties in a consultation process that
ran from 1st July 2009 until 14 August 2009 and was
followed by oral consultations with selected parties.
Jason Foley-Train - the DCMS official seconded
to RGA for the purpose - has authored a detailed report
on the findings, which will be published for the first
time at the upcoming Betting Show at Earls Court between
26th-28th January.
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