The European Lotteries, the European Casino Association and the World Tote Association have joined forces to fight illegal online gambling and embrace the Digital Services Act package.
The trio have produced an open letter welcoming the European Commission's plans to modernise the rules applicable to the online environment.
The Digital Services Act package foresees a notice-and-action mechanism, enabling users to notify online intermediaries about potentially illegal online content or activities and to help the latter to react quickly and be more transparent regarding the actions taken.
The alliance stated: “As representatives of the licensed and regulated gambling industry in Europe, we cherish the same values of trust, reliability and integrity for our players. We support the right of people to enjoy and play in a nationally licensed secure gambling environment and our members work hard every day to provide this.
“The alliance represents over 150 operators in the gambling and lottery sector in Europe, where together they contribute more than €35bn yearly to good causes and state budgets. Almost 1 million people are – directly and indirectly – employed by the members of the alliance.
"With over 350,000 independent points of sale for lotteries and around 900 casinos across whole Europe, these operators offer a wide variety of safe, well-regulated and controlled games and channel the players to this legal and nationally licensed supply of games.
“We call on everyone to support our members, to enable this significant contribution to the benefit of society to continue.”
