LIVRO VERDE – Individuais e Privados: Betsson Group

12/05/2012 by admin in Livro Verde No Comments

Betsson Group

Betsson Group is hereby submitting its contribution to the consultation on online gambling in the Internal Market. Betsson is grateful for the opportunity to comment and hope that our observations can be useful for the EU Commission when taking steps to address the current market fragmentation and legal ambiguity.

Betsson have over 48 years of experience in the gaming sector, both from land based and online gaming, and is currently through our portfolio company Betsson Malta Ltd, operating a number of online gaming brands, among them Betsson.com and Betsafe.com, both primarily focused on the Scandinavian market. We are a fast growing company with currently around 400 employees, most of them situated at our operational centre in Malta. The holding company that owns our operational assets, Betsson AB (publ), is listed on the Stockholm Stock Exchange (Nasdaq OMX Nordic Midcap) and has a market cap of approximately 650 MEUR (for more information see www.betssonab.com).

We welcome the consultation approach by the EU Commission but are at the same time quite worried about the general attitude towards cross-border operators, and some misconceptions of the nature of online gaming in particular, present in the current draft version of the Green Paper. We have in our reply focused on commenting on such attitudes and misconceptions as they, if they are left unchallenged, risk becoming the foundation for an EU policy on these matters which would be very unfortunate indeed.

On the remaining specific questions we refer to the submission made by the European Gaming & Betting Association (EGBA) that summarise our position very well.

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