Announcements

European Parliament hearing on “The way forward for grassroots sport in Europe”, organised by the European Non Governmental Sport Organisation (ENGSO) and supported by the European Lotteries Association (EL), highlights the Recommendations by the High Level Group on Grassroots Sport as the European Lotteries Association announces its new EL Sport Award

GLMS is the state lotteries’ mutualised monitoring system on sports betting. It aims at detecting and analysing suspicious betting activities that could question the integrity of a sport competition. GMLS has full time operators to collect and distribute information to members and partners.

Driven by the core lottery values, integrity, precaution and solidarity, EL was a pioneer association when launching as of 1999 a cooperation for the sharing of information on sports betting modern evolutions. As of 2005 this cooperation oriented specifically towards looking at integrity threats, with formal set up of ELMS in 2009 to monitor sports betting markets irregularities.

Building on these years of experience and efforts deployed at European level, the Global Lottery Monitoring System (GLMS) was set up in 2015 with worldwide ambitions.

WATCH a 7-minute video which explains the "Who, Why and How of GLMS"

The High Level Group (HLG) on Grassroots Sport, composed by 15 high level independent experts in relevant matters, set up under the political leadership of Commissioner Tibor Navracsics, after 9 months of intensive work, presented today its recommendations to Commissioner Navracsics. The High Level Group’s report contains general recommendations as well as specific ones, within the areas of health, social inclusion, informal learning and skills development, volunteering, economic dimension, sustainable financing and urban planning and infrastructure.

The Olympic Day held annually on June 23, is celebrated by millions of people around the Globe. Commemorating the birth of the modern Olympic Games in 1894, Olympic Day’s mission is to promote fitness, well-being, culture and education, while promoting the Olympic values of excellence, friendship and respect. On the occasion of the Olympic Day, we reflect over the contribution of Lotteries in Europe to the Olympic movement.

The sustainable lottery model based on values, like solidarity, integrity and precaution being fully in line with the Olympic values, excellence, friendship and respect, has enabled Lotteries in Europe to sustainably support the Olympic movement. Indeed, Lotteries in Europe perceive Olympism as a philosophy of life which places sport at the service of humanity and have been enthusiastically supporting the Olympic movement in many different ways. 

The global lottery community is poorer, following the loss of the WLA Executive Director, Jean Jørgensen, last Saturday, 20 February 2016. Jean Jørgensen was active as the WLA Executive Director since 2009 and had developed numerous initiatives and brought the whole sector onto a higher level.

EL joins a strong network of partners in a far-reaching pan-European project on sports integrity.

The project “Keep Crime out of Sport – Together against sports competitions manipulations” (KCOOS), led by the Council of Europe, and funded by the European Commission and the Council of Europe was inaugurated on 9-10 February in Brussels.