MAGAZINE OF THE EUROPEAN LOTTERIES, 2011, SEPTEMBER ...
MAGAZINE OF THE EUROPEAN LOTTERIES, 2011, SEPTEMBER ...
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FOREWORD<br />
DEAR EL MEMBERS,<br />
DEAR FRIENDS,<br />
We all gathered in June at our Congress<br />
in Helsinki, to review what we have<br />
achieved in the past two years and to<br />
discuss how we should approach the<br />
challenges and opportunities we face in<br />
the future. I believe our exchange of ideas<br />
have been very fruitful, inspired by<br />
many outstanding personalities from<br />
outside the lottery world who spoke at<br />
this event, which our Finnish Member<br />
Veikkaus organised in a perfect and innovative<br />
way.<br />
In Helsinki, our General Assembly also<br />
elected a new Executive Committee, a<br />
strong and motivated team, which can<br />
build on the very good work done by<br />
their predecessors. The new Executive<br />
Committee already met in July to take<br />
some important decisions and to discuss<br />
how EL can adapt its services and<br />
internal organisation even better to the<br />
needs of our Members and the expectations<br />
from policy makers and other<br />
opinion leaders.<br />
Since spring, following the publication<br />
of the Green Paper on online gambling<br />
and the launch of the stakeholder consultation<br />
on it, we have all put much<br />
<strong>THE</strong> <strong>EUROPEAN</strong> <strong>LOTTERIES</strong><br />
PRESIDENT<br />
Dipl. Ing. Friedrich STICKLER,<br />
Member of the Board<br />
AUSTRIAN <strong>LOTTERIES</strong>, Austria<br />
1 ST VICE-PRESIDENT<br />
Mr. Christophe BLANCHARD-DIGNAC,<br />
Chairman and CEO<br />
LA FRANÇAISE DES JEUX, France<br />
2 ND VICE-PRESIDENT<br />
Mr. Tjeerd VEENSTRA,<br />
Director<br />
DE LOTTO, The Netherlands<br />
FOREWORD AND ORGANISATION<br />
effort into preparing our detailed submission,<br />
which we submitted at the end<br />
of July. At the same time, EL has been in<br />
constant touch with those EU institutions,<br />
notably the European Parliament,<br />
which will influence the European<br />
Commission’s decisions on follow-up<br />
initiatives to the Green Paper.<br />
In parallel, the financing and the integrity<br />
of sport have climbed up the European<br />
political agenda: The European<br />
Commission’s new strategy on sport,<br />
adopted in January, and especially<br />
the Council’s three-year work plan on<br />
sport, adopted in May, define these two<br />
issues, which are extremely relevant<br />
MEMBERS <strong>OF</strong> <strong>THE</strong> BOARD<br />
Mr. Torbjørn ALMLID, Ph.D.,<br />
President and CEO<br />
NORSK TIPPING AS, Norway<br />
Dipl.-Kfm. Hansjörg HÖLTKEMEIER,<br />
Member of the Managing Board<br />
DEUTSCHE KLASSENLOTTERIE<br />
BERLIN, Germany<br />
Mr. Franci KRIŽAN,<br />
Member of the Board<br />
LOTERIJA SLOVENIJE D.D., Slovenia<br />
Mr. Jean-Luc MONER-BANET,<br />
General Director<br />
SOCIÉTÉ DE LA LOTERIE DE LA<br />
SUISSE ROMANDE, Switzerland<br />
Mr. Ivan PITTEVILS,<br />
Chief Executive Officer<br />
NATIONALE LOTERIJ, Belgium<br />
Mr. Marco SALA,<br />
CEO & Managing Director<br />
Lottomatica Group SpA<br />
LOTTOMATICA SpA, Italy<br />
Mr. Ioannis SPANOUDAKIS<br />
Chairman of the Board of Directors<br />
and CEO<br />
OPAP S.A., Greece<br />
Ms. Dianne THOMPSON, CBE<br />
Chief Executive<br />
CAMELOT UK <strong>LOTTERIES</strong> LTD.,<br />
United Kingdom<br />
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to EL, as priorities. EL participated in<br />
many high-level as well as working-level<br />
meetings and shared with Members<br />
of the European Parliament, European<br />
Commission officials, national governments<br />
and other stakeholders, including<br />
the IOC and the Council of Europe,<br />
its expertise on these topics. As regards<br />
the financing of sport, the more than<br />
two billion EUR our Members contribute<br />
each year add much weight to what<br />
we say. As regards the protection of the<br />
integrity of sports events from manipulations<br />
linked to betting, the lead we<br />
have taken in this area, which we will<br />
extend through the implementation of<br />
our unanimously adopted Helsinki Resolution,<br />
meets great recognition.<br />
All this shows that we are on the right<br />
track. With the same high level of commitment<br />
by our offices in Brussels and<br />
Lausanne, our Committees and Working<br />
groups, our Legal Advisors and you,<br />
the Members, I am confident that, at<br />
our next Congress in Tel Aviv, we will<br />
be looking back to another two years of<br />
good work to the benefit of the Association<br />
and its Members.<br />
Friedrich STICKLER<br />
EL President<br />
GENERAL SECRETARIAT<br />
Ms Bernadette Lobjois<br />
Secretary General<br />
Av. de Béthusy 36<br />
CH-1005 LAUSANNE<br />
Tel. +41 21 311 30 25<br />
Fax +41 21 312 30 11<br />
http://www.european-lotteries.org<br />
E-mail: info@european-lotteries.org