Study on risk assessment and management and prevention of conflicts of interest in the prevention and fight against betting-related match fixing in the EU 28: Final Report

This report concerns the provisions and practices on betting-related match fixing in sports<br/>within the 28 Member States. Carried out in late 2013/early 2014, respondents in each Member<br/>State reported on that state’s gambling-related provisions in respect of football and tennis and<br/>(in each country) a third sport determined on the basis of either its popularity (in terms of<br/>participation or television viewing) or the existence of betting-related “scandals” in that sport<br/>within that particular jurisdiction. Those reports helped the authors to compare the Member<br/>States’ regulatory and self-regulatory frameworks relating to risk assessment and conflict of<br/>interest management, with a view to indicating areas of best practice, identifying particularly<br/>good legislative frameworks and highlighting areas where change was either desirable or<br/>necessary. While some individual Member States have legislation which might provide<br/>templates that others could adapt for their own use, the authors were not convinced that “more<br/>law”, whether at the national or European level, was desirable. Rather, more effective<br/>cooperation among the stakeholders was identified as being more likely to provide tangible<br/>benefits than would new legal frameworks.