This inaugural conference will focus on the regulatory, legal and business forces effecting gaming and Gambling within the European Union.

Any company looking to do business within the 25 member states has to be aware of the current regulatory situation and licensing requirements at play, but in the context of ever increasing legal challenges to the state monopolies, where are the new opportunities likely to open up and how can you best position yourself to take advantage of expected changes?

Topics to be debated include:

• Hear from the European Commission: if gambling is not going to be addressed in the Directive on Services until 2010, what is its current thinking and likely schedule for change? Will there realistically ever be regulation at an EU level?

• Is the trend now moving inevitably towards an open market? Drilling down into the most recent challenges in the remote and terrestrial sectors across Europe. Case studies from Italy, Netherlands; Germany and Belgium.

• What is the true situation for companies looking for cross-border business opportunities?

• What is happening in the newly admitted member states? Focus on Eastern Europe
• Latest on the UK Gambling Bill: What impact, if any, is UK legislation having on other key European jurisdictions?

• Which locations are the US casino operators targeting as the potential UK market shrinks?

• Monopolies versus competition: hear compelling debate from both sides as calls grow from operator and supplier companies alike to end the state monopolies’ control

• Advertising and marketing of gambling services – what’s allowed and what’s actually happening.

• Proposed new Money Laundering Directive: ’Know Your Customer’ element and other implications

• Investment: Appetite of the investment market for the European gambling market

• Social Responsibility – what’s the
pan-European picture and causes for concern?

Contact: Penny Gruber
Email: pgruber@ateonline.co.uk
Tel: +44 (0) 20 7713 0302