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"The report drafted by Mr Creutzmann concerns online gambling in the European internal market. Increasingly widespread Internet access has been causing new problems for governments and the relevant control entities. One of the rapidly growing sectors on the Internet or on similar channels of distribution – mobile telephones or interactive television platforms – is the online gambling market, which currently represents around 10% of all gambling in Europe. While there are Member States where such gambling is properly controlled, like France, there are others that have no form of regulation or control. As well as representing a significant loss of income, this enables indiscriminate access to these platforms, particularly by children, who end up becoming addicted.
As the Internet is a cross-border medium, there is an urgent need for legislative harmonisation. This is not just because of equality issues in terms of unfair competition for licensed online operators from illegal ones, but also in order to control the black market and to prevent the avoidance of millions of euro in tax that could and should be spent on public works or social programmes. I therefore voted in favour and hope the Member States will quickly implement the measures that have just been adopted."@en1
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