The National Lottery Authority of Ghana became an observer member of European Lotteries on 17 June 2024, after the organisation’s member countries voted unanimously to admit it. The status gives the NLA and its stakeholders access to training, capacity-building and exchanges on lottery-sector practices.
Ghana’s lottery authority and stakeholders gain access to lottery-sector training, capacity-building and practice exchanges.
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European Lotteries called on the European Parliament and Council to exclude lotteries and gambling from the proposed Digital Fairness Act, while supporting its consumer-protection aims. The association argues that national licensing, advertising and player-protection rules should remain in place and that existing requirements should be enforced effectively.
The European Commission's proposed Digital Fairness Act would update EU consumer rules to tackle unfair or manipulative online practices.
European Lotteries has called for a coherent regulatory framework that applies existing rules to emerging prediction market products, following a webinar on 14 October with almost 300 registrants. ADM director of controls Luca Turchi took part alongside experts from France and the US. The association set out four principles, including classifying products by their actual characteristics and risks and preserving national gambling competences.
European Lotteries has called for a coherent regulatory framework that would apply existing rules to emerging prediction market products and prevent regulatory gaps, the association said. The position was set out in a September position paper and discussed at a webinar the association organised on 14 October, which drew almost 300 registrants from Europe and other countries, according to the association.
European Lotteries has called for prediction markets to be assessed according to their product features and risks, rather than their labels or underlying technology, the organisation said. Secretary-general Piet Van Baeveghem said comparable risks should receive comparable safeguards; the group favours national-level analysis before a European strategy is developed.
European Lotteries said its members began work in Milan on a new certification framework linked to updated responsible-gambling standards. About 80 representatives from 46 member lotteries took part in the discussion during the first day of the EL/WLA Sustainability & Responsible Gaming Seminar 2026, which runs from 16 to 18 September.
European Lotteries said European lotteries returned €29.4bn to society in 2024 through funding for sport, culture, heritage, social initiatives and local organisations. The figure was discussed at a Brussels roundtable on national lotteries’ contribution to civil society and European democracy.