EGBA boss calls for greater cooperation to ensure the sector has a sustainable future

Europe’s gambling industry must work towards “a stronger culture of responsibility and cooperation,” claims Maarten Haijer, Secretary General of the European Gaming and Betting Association (EGBA)

Europe’s play manufacture must do work towards “a stronger civilization of responsibility and cooperation,” claims Maarten Haijer, Secretary General of the European Gaming and Betting Association (EGBA).

In a blog post, he urged swap associations and operators to engage in greater cross-border collaboration, particularly around safer gambling.

Haijer criticised those companies who sit down on the side-lines and challenged operators to process more intimately together.

Ultimately, he argued that enhanced cooperation would appropriate companies to do good from others’ experience, learning “best practices most self-regulatory initiatives.”

He also issued a word of warning, asserting that “stricter regulation” will go “inevitable” if the manufacture doesn’t act.

He wrote: “As companies and associations, we all need to work closer together towards a stronger civilisation of responsibility and cooperation so that the industry is break organised and represented.

“Because in that location are path too many operators that sit down on the fringe of our sector, don’t conduce to the representation of the sector and choose non to participate in trade associations same EGBA.”

EGBA’s Secretary General acknowledged that responsibility requires “commitment and resources,” but offered some guidance. “Become a member of a trade connexion if you aren’t already,” he continued.

“Invest inward relationships with wider stakeholders and our critics. Help make grow local manufacture codes of lead and apply these. Meet on a regular basis with the political and regulatory leaderships to key issues and happen solutions.

“Be open, fair and transparent most your activities. Invest inwards strengthening the industry voice.”

In closing, Haijer said: “This is voice of our collective effort, as EGBA, to conduce to a sustainable gambling sphere that canful fight back for its interests, acknowledges its localise inwards bon ton and answers the concerns that smart set mightiness have, both today and inward the future.  But we can’t doh it alone.”