The European Commission has today launched its long-awaited Green Paper consultation, the primary aim of which is to obtain a facts-based picture of the existing situation in the European online gambling market and of the different national regulatory models.
As a fast developing business in Europe, the EC said that there were now almost 15,000 online gambling websites already identified and total annual revenues exceeding €6bn in 2008 (representing 7.5 per cent of the overall EU [...]