Online gambling – national, european and international approaches

  An interesting presentation from Emeline THOMAS :
National approaches, the international community and gambling online help to highlight the difficulties presented by the Member States to abide by the requirements of the European Community and the World Trade Organization.

The interest in this subject is to demonstrate the complexity of the legal sector gambling online. Because of the international nature of this type of activity, several national regulations are applicable. Currently each member state has its own design of the regulation of gambling. However, the first mission assigned to the Community is the realization of a common market. This objective is stated in Article 2 of the EC Treaty: “The Community’s mission by establishing a common market and an economic and monetary union by implementing policies or actions ( …) to promote throughout the Commonwealth a harmonious, balanced and sustainable economic activities. . ” To achieve this objective, Article 3 of the EC Treaty requires four components, namely the various freedoms of movement: “Community action (…) has an internal market characterized by the abolition, as between member States, of obstacles to the free movement of goods, persons, services and capital. . ” Member States must comply with the objectives of the EC Treaty in order to implement the common market.
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