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5 Amendments of Kay SWINBURNE related to 2011/2084(INI)

Amendment 20 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 2
2. Stresses that the essential nature of all on-line activities, in particular the fact that they operate across national borders, requires that they be dealt with in a coordinated manner at a European levelor global level, where appropriate;
2011/07/19
Committee: ECON
Amendment 33 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 3
3. Insists on the need to dissuade players from engaging in illegal gambling, which means that an EU legal framework offering lawful services must be provided asin a system that is coherent across the whole of Europe, especially in terms of tax treatment, and applies commonprotection of vulnerable consumers in order to apply similar standards of accountability and integrity;
2011/07/19
Committee: ECON
Amendment 61 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 4
4. takes the view that the proliferation of illegal on-line gambling represents a threat to the integrity of sport; stresses that keeping sporting events credible and honest is vital to the sports industry as a whole; considers that the European Union must play a more prominent role in safeguarding the integrity of sport, a goal to be pursued by all stakeholders;
2011/07/19
Committee: ECON
Amendment 72 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 5
5. Calls, therefore, for the establishment of a European Agency for Integrity and Fair Play in Sport consistent with Articles 6, 83 and 165 of the Treaty on the Functioning of the European Union, with a specific remitgreater cooperation between stakeholders in order to promote player education and coordinate action against fraud and corruption in sport by sharing information and expertise and by applying the common definition of offences and sanctions;
2011/07/19
Committee: ECON
Amendment 79 #
Draft opinion
Paragraph 6
6. Stresses that on-line gambling is a major source of funding for the sports industry; recalls that on-line betting is one form of the commercial exploitation of sporting events; calls on the Commission to look at ways in which revenues from sports betting might be routinely used to safeguard the integrity of popular sport and develop it; calls on the Commission to ensure that there is a high level of legal security, particularly regarding application of the rules on state aid.deleted
2011/07/19
Committee: ECON