Next steps for gambling policy: regulation, taxation and new opportunities
Description
This seminar focuses on some of the key issues affecting the gambling industry, its customers and the communities in which it operates. It is scheduled at a time of significant developments in UK legislation affecting licencing and advertising, and as the sector looks ahead to new markets and distribution channels, including the continued rise of mobile. Delegates will discuss the implications of major legislation moving through the UK Parliament with a focus on how businesses in the gambling industry are set to adapt and continue to grow in the evolving commercial and regulatory environment with the proposed tax increase affecting remote gambling; the introduction of a point-of-consumption licensing regime across Europe; and continued concerns about protection of potentially vulnerable groups including the impact of fixed odds betting machines and the wider presence of gambling on the high street. Issues of regulatory harmonisation within the EU and new guidance expected from the Committee of Advertising Practice on the promotion of free bets and bonus offers will also be considered. The agenda also looks at latest trends in the competitive environment with growth in mobile and the widening of markets. We are delighted that Maarten Haijer, Secretary General, European Gaming and Betting Association has agreed to deliver a keynote address at this seminar. Planned sessions bring together further stakeholders from across the gambling sector and their legal, technical and public affairs advisors with interest groups, academics and charities with senior policymakers. David Clifton, Director, Clifton Davies Consultancy; Shahriar Coupal, Director of Advertising Policy and Practice, Advertising Standards Authority; Susan Biddle, Consultant, Pinsent Masons; Ed Birkin, Leisure Analyst, Credit Suisse and Dirk Vennix, Chief Executive, Association of British Bookmakers have also agreed to speak. This seminar focuses on some of the key issues affecting the gambling industry, its customers and the communities in which it operates. It is scheduled at a time of significant developments in UK legislation affecting licencing and advertising, and as the sector looks ahead to new markets and distribution channels, including the continued rise of mobile.
Delegates will discuss the implications of major legislation moving through the UK Parliament with a focus on how businesses in the gambling industry are set to adapt and continue to grow in the evolving commercial and regulatory environment with the proposed tax increase affecting remote gambling; the introduction of a point-of-consumption licensing regime across Europe; and continued concerns about protection of potentially vulnerable groups including the impact of fixed odds betting machines and the wider presence of gambling on the high street. Issues of regulatory harmonisation within the EU and new guidance expected from the Committee of Advertising Practice on the promotion of free bets and bonus offers will also be considered.
The agenda also looks at latest trends in the competitive environment with growth in mobile and the widening of markets.
We are delighted to be able to include in this seminar keynote addresses from Maarten Haijer, Secretary General, European Gaming and Betting Association and Mark Warrington, Director of Regulatory Affairs, Betfair.
