In Austria, online gambling and betting providers licensed in EU member states invest around EUR 100 million annually in the Austrian sports and media landscape. The announced gambling reform jeopardizes these amounts....
Monopolies have often been justified under the belief that the state is better placed to protect its gamblers. But that’s why countries should have stringent consumer protection rules: it’s the rules that protect the consumer, not whether there is a monopoly or not....
New sports betting study published! A new study of the Upper Austrian Chamber of Commerce (WKOÖ), prepared under the scientific direction of the University of Linz, underlines the importance...
If sporting events are manipulated and confidence in sport is thus abused, everyone loses: the sports associations, the athletes concerned and the betting operators. Therefore, betting fraud and game manipulation must be fought consistently and relentlessly - all members of the OVWG agree on this...
