Engelsk titel: Justifications of national gambling policies in France and Finland
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Författare:
Marionneau, Virve
Email: virve.marionneau@helsinki.fi
Språk: Eng
Antal referenser: 27
Dokumenttyp:
Artikel
UI-nummer: 15083201
Sammanfattning
AIMS - The principles of free trade and free circulation of services within the European Union
have created pressures to make the strictly controlled European gambling markets more open.
According to the Court of Justice of the European Union, restrictions on gambling are only allowed if
they are justified in admissible terms of consumer protection, prevention of criminal activity and
protection of public order. This study compares the gambling laws of two European societies, France
and Finland, to analyse how their legal frames of gambling have been adjusted to these principles.
DESIGN - The data consists of up-to-date legislation on gambling in Finland and France. A qualitative
analysis was conducted to study whether new ways of justifying have been included in legislative
texts and if these are substantiated by measures related to consumer protection or crime prevention.
RESULTS - France has mainly justified its restrictive policies on gambling in terms of preventing
criminal activities while the Finnish legislation highlights the charitable causes funded by gambling
proceeds, a claim not accepted by the Court of Justice of the European Union. Consumer protection is
increasingly stressed in both countries, and the range of rationales has also grown notably since
2007.
CONCLUSION - While the vocabularies of justification accepted by the CJEU have expanded since
2007, these have not been substantiated by many new legislative measures. This is not attributed to
political ill will but rather to the difficulty of changing existing legislative traditions.