Sports betting and corruption: How to preserve the - SportAccord

Sports betting and corruption: How to preserve the integrity of sport
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INTERNATIONAL COORDINATION
Managing the diversity of approaches to regulating sports betting
� Concerted approach at European Union level: setting up at EU level of a formal institution and
permanent structure, an inter-regulatory body that will perform its mission in accordance with
the principle of subsidiarity whilst taking into account the specific features of all relevant
legislation.
� A forum to discuss alerts issued and dealt with at national level.
� Determination of common criteria relating to cooperative operators , i.e. those
limiting the exercise of their activity to the regulated market (compliance with
national measures).
� Extended approach: raising governmental awareness, network of cooperative states .
� Continuation of, and support for, the initiative by the Council of Europe to help raise
awareness outside the EU, among the Eastern European and Balkan countries. This
will also enable a study of the feasibility of, and conditions for, an international
convention.
� Agreement with the relevant authorities on the regulation of the Asian market.
This idea of coordinating the fight against the illegal market gives rise
to a second priority proposal
The creation of a permanent intergovernmental structure for the surveillance and
monitoring of the sports betting offering on the Internet.
This will centralise data on the modes and types of bet offered on different sports in the global
market, and will aggregate information on the volumes of bets recorded, statistics on betting
operators and features of the market (hedging and arbitrage techniques) etc. This type of
structure will rely in the first place on centralised monitoring by national regulators and
possibly also on the participation of (cooperative) operators in providing information and
know-how that will help to develop and establish the approach to the deregulated market. This
monitoring centre for the global sports betting market may become part of a broader approach
to monitoring the illegal gambling market (particularly at European level). This latter option
would make it possible to deal more widely with any and all of the risks for which online
gambling sites serve as a vehicle, and particularly that of money-laundering, the gravity of
which is still underestimated.
Combating transnational criminal networks
The penetration of the world of sport by crime gives rise to the realisation that the world of sport needs
to have mechanisms for relaying information along the lines of an intelligence cycle: collection,
analysis, sharing:
� At European level: coordination of national police forces: creation within Europol and
Eurojust of points of contact assigned to the fight against corruption in sport. Centralisation
and exchange of information, legal and regulatory watches.
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