(a) Citizens. Many EU citizens purchase on-line gambling services for entertainment purposes1, while a smaller group of players make a living as professional gamblers (e.g. professional poker players) and there are also associations/syndicates operating in the EU market. Many of … Read More
Short… The value of a document does not increase the longer it gets. Your readers will not respect you more because you have written 20 pages instead of 10, especially when they realise that you could have written what you … Read More
When you start If your outline include a summary, begin with that: you may find it is enough! Put it at the beginning because that is the first (and sometimes the only) part that people will read. Pay particular attention … Read More
Be direct and interesting Always consider the people you’re really writing for: not just your boss, or the reviser of your translations,but the end users. Like you, they’re in a hurry.Who are they, whatdo they already know, and what might … Read More
Ban on games of chance The Schindler judgment remains the only decision where the CJEU ruled on a national (UK) general ban on a certain category of games of chance – the organisation of lotteries (subject to very limited exceptions). … Read More
The European Parliament voted to end roaming charges by Christmas 2015, as part of a wider vote in support to the Commission’s proposed regulation for a “Connected Continent” (telecoms single market). European Commission Vice President Neelie Kroes said: “This vote … Read More
On-line gambling is complex in view of its virtual and cross-border nature. However, given the technical systems in place on-line gambling operations are traceable, both in terms of audit trails of the operations and of the payment systems with transactions … Read More
Since the emergence of the internet in the 1990s, an increasing number of gambling services have come available on-line or through other new remote communications technologies. The rapid technological advancements, commercial initiatives, and market penetration of such commerce have made … Read More
Demand for gambling services in the early 21 century and for the past half-century in the European Union – as well as in most other parts of the world – has been and is expanding rapidly, for a number of … Read More
Internet constitutes a “channel” through which games of change may be offered (See Case Carmen Media Group). In light of the assessment of whether the establishment of a public monopoly on the offer of games of chance via the internet … Read More
Articles 49 and 56 Treaties of the European Union (TFEU) require the abolition of all restrictions on freedom of establishment and freedom to provide services – even if those restrictions apply without distinction to national providers of services and to … Read More
One of several situations for the success on the Single Supervisory Mechanism is that it guarantees a genuinely European point of view. It is a myth that politically protected banks or banking structures or “national champions” have been within the … Read More
