AAMS and ARJEL to sign agreement in June
France and Italy's online gambling regulators could sign official Memorandum of Understanding as early as June to formalise information sharing, eGaming Review has learned.
France and Italy’s respective egaming regulators could sign a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) as early as June to formalise information sharing and set up working groups to discuss common issues, eGaming Review has learned.
A senior member of AAMS, Italy’s online gaming regulator, who wished to remain anonymous, told eGaming Review his organisation and France’s ARJEL had been working together since June last year when France passed a law to regulate online gaming.
“We started discussions as soon as it was established. We have a long history of meetings with them and a very good understanding of each other’s markets. We have been collaborating a lot since then so it is only natural that we should want to formalise this relationship.
“We have been discussing this for some time and hope our director [Raffaele Ferrara] and ARJEL president [Jean-Francois Vilotte] will sign an agreement in June. It is not clear when exactly this will be signed and this could change,” he said.
“We have similar business models and share several licences. We already discuss areas such as collusion, integrity, player protection and recently got together to discuss Black Friday and to debate what the right approach was.”
The AAMS representative said that when signed both bodies would look to set up working groups on matters such as “integrity, player protection, and information exchange” in order to share best practice and benchmark with one another.
He added the two organisations had not discussed the issue of sharing liquidity but that there was a provision in Italian law that allows both countries to pool liquidity for a small amount of monthly horse racing events sold in France by PMU and Italian licensees that offer horse racing.