17 Amendments of Nora BERRA related to 2012/2322(INI)
Amendment 36 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital A
Recital A
A. whereas, in the absence of harmonisation and with due regard to the principle of subsidiarity, the Member States maintain a margin of discretion to regulate online gambling in accordance with their own values and pursued objectives of general interest, as well as their own level of protection of consumers;
Amendment 73 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital E a (new)
Recital E a (new)
Ea. Whereas a sustainable financing model for the promotion of horseracing and sport and the organisation of sport events, on which bets are placed and gambling operators earn an income, must be ensured;
Amendment 94 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 1
Paragraph 1
1. Recognises that the Member States have the right to determine, on grounds of pursuing objectives of general interest, how the offer of online gambling services is to be organised and regulated at the national level, while observing the basic EU Treaty principles;
Amendment 124 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 2 a (new)
Paragraph 2 a (new)
2a. Calls on the Commission, in carrying out the ongoing infringement procedures and the analyses of national regulations, to recognise that Member States are allowed to ensure that a fair share of the benefits of gambling are directed towards the financing of professional and grass- roots sports and the equine sector; calls for the specific features and the sustainable contributions from lotteries to society to be recognised and taken into account in any coordinated approach at EU level;
Amendment 163 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 4
Paragraph 4
4. Notes the risks associated with a general prohibition of online gambling services and with excessive restrictions for consumerconsumers having access to illegal gambling services; calls on the Commission and the Member States to weigh, as part of the work of the group of experts on gambling services, the social costs of permitting regulated gambling activities against the harmful effects of consumers resorting to illicit marketegal operators;
Amendment 208 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 8
Paragraph 8
8. Stresses the importance ofor the expert group to work towards removing unnecessary administrative burdens that prevent legal online operators from offering their services to consumersas a step forward towards cooperation between Member States and the Commission;
Amendment 230 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 9
Paragraph 9
9. Believes that national regulators should be able to agree on equivalence clauses that would facilitate the application of national licenses, including agreement on technical standards for gaming equipmentcommon agreements between national regulators, including agreements, in the fields of application of national licenses and enforcement measures against illegal offers, technical standards and gaming equipment, identification and antifraud systems, assessment of the potential risks of every gambling product and gambling moderators would contribute to increase the level of regulation in the EU, security and citizens protection, in particular minors and vulnerable persons;
Amendment 249 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 10
Paragraph 10
10. Agrees with the Commission that a fair offer of gambling services, as defined by each Member State, is necessary for consumer protection, because in its absence consumers are more likely to turn to unreliableillegal gambling websiteoperators;
Amendment 266 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 11
Paragraph 11
11. Calls on the Commission to continue to explore measures at the EU level to protect vulnerable consumers, including formalised cooperation between regulatornational competent authorities, and theo introduction of an online trustmark for legal operatorsvite Member States to oblige the operators working with a licence of the Member State to carry in a prominent fixed position the logo of the regulatory authority on its website;
Amendment 272 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 11 a (new)
Paragraph 11 a (new)
11a. Reaffirms that protecting consumers, notably by preventing underage gambling and safeguarding vulnerable persons, as well as curbing compulsive gambling, for example by introducing online gambling moderators, should be the first and foremost objective of any EU common action in the online gambling sector;
Amendment 277 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 12
Paragraph 12
12. Believes that the unquantifiable scopale of compulsive gambling points to the need forrequires additional research and data, and therefore calls on all Member States to carry out further studies to understand problem gambling ; calls on the Commission to prompt the creation of a network of relevant national organizations, which undertake studies and research in this field, as well as provide formation and treatment of gambling addiction, and recommend Member States to launch yearly prevalence surveys and to collect and promote the gathering by independent sources of statistics on gambling addiction and the undertaking of studies on its dramatic social and financial consequences for pathological gamblers;
Amendment 285 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 12 a (new)
Paragraph 12 a (new)
12a. Calls for the strict regulation or the prohibition, after an evaluation conducted at the level of each Member State, of dangerous forms of gambling;
Amendment 318 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 14
Paragraph 14
14. Notes that the workshop agreement published in February 2011 by the European Committee for Standardisation (CEN)12 could serve as a basiscontribution for identifying the content of common standards;
Amendment 354 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 16
Paragraph 16
16. Recommends the introduction of uniform and pan-EuropeanEU common standards for electronic identification and cross border e- verification services; notes that the different registration procedures across the EU undermine regulated operators, and can push consumers as well as for enforcement measures such as the blacklisting and the blocking of illegal websites, definition of safe and traceable payment solutions and blocking measures for transactions in order to ensure that consumers cannot turn into the hands of illegal operators; calls, therefore, on Member States for registration and identification procedures to be streamlined and made more efficient, notably to prevent unidentified users and underage gamblers from accessing online gambling products;
Amendment 397 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 18 a (new)
Paragraph 18 a (new)
18a. Considers that establishing a legal link between sports event organisers and online gambling operators, with a view to exerting an ethical and financial control over bets that are placed on sports events, will help strengthen the integrity of sport;
Amendment 407 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 18 b (new)
Paragraph 18 b (new)
18b. Highlights the importance of the support of the European Union to the ongoing work within the Council of Europe towards the negotiation of an international Convention on the Protection and the promotion of sports integrity, and calls on the European Commission to propose a uniform definition of sports fraud as a criminal offence, which should be included in the law of all Member States;
Amendment 416 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 18 c (new)
Paragraph 18 c (new)
18c. Calls for the adoption at national level of effective measures in order to prevent conflicts of interests, notably by avoiding wagers of all stakeholders from the world of sports on bets organized on competitions in which they are involved; invites Member States to ban the most dangerous forms of betting, in particular betting exchanges and spread betting;