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Much faster than expected the Greek government has come out with the first draft of the proposed legislation. It is based on the model adopted by other European countries such as France, Denmark and Italy. The proposal covers online sports betting, poker and casino services. It requires that the providers of these services to residents of Greece acquire licenses, operate under a Greek domain name and set up servers and transactional processing in Greece. The proposed licenses will have a validity of five years. In order to keep unlicensed foreign operators out, precautionary measures envisaged include ISP blocking of their web sites and instructions to Greek financial institutions to prevent any illegal online gambling transactions with Greek citizens.

The political debate is likely to begin in the Greek parliament in September 2010. Now the strategic decision will be taken by the politicians. Two options are likely to be discussed. One option is the perpetuation of the OPAP monopoly over online gambling. The other option is the establishment of a competitive system with regulatory restrictions. A target date of May 2011 is set in the proposed legislation.

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Betfair has not applied for a French license and is currently not intending to do so because it is not satisfied with the regulations framed for online gambling. It has however engaged a French consultancy firm to put its views across to the French authorities in an effective manner with the hope that there would be positive changes. But Betfair will apply for licenses in some other European countries as and when they set up regulated regimes for online gambling. The Denmark market is expected to open up in 2011 and is expected to be a more level playing field for private operators. Greece is another country that has started internal discussions on legalization of online gambling and Betfair is in talks with the Greek government. Betfair also has Germany and Spain on its radar, but Phillips said that the government’s attitude in those countries could be a problem.

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