Drawing lots to decide who gets to engage in lottery in Norway – Aftenposten

– As it looks now, it could go towards a draw. If we are left with seven players who meet the conditions, we have to draw lots, said Deputy Elna Berge Gaming Board.

This paradoxical solution has occurred in the new licensing round for national lotteries: After complaints, both in supervision and in Lottery Council, the result may be that seven of the original eight applicants receive stamp of approval.

Ministry of Culture has given clear instructions that it should not be given more than five licenses.

The questions are: To whom? And how many will be in the draw? It stands for permission to sell lots for 300 million annually – for nine years.

A total of eight charitable associations applied for approval to operate national lotteries in Norway.

in the first round approved Gaming board two applicants, Norwegian Pant Lottery ( Norway red Cross ) and Lottovate Ltd ( UNICEF Committee ).

Following a complaint approved then audit applications from Postcode Lottery ( WWF Norway / SOS Children’s Villages ), Charitech ( Plan Norway / Care Norway ) and Charitech ( Foundation ).

Three complaints were submitted to the Gaming Board, which returned the applications of Foto Lotto ( Right to Play ) and Donira ( Rainforest Foundation, Caritas Norway and Development ) to audit for a retrial.

the appeal of Vexta ( Atlas Alliance, Norwegian People’s Aid and the Norwegian Refugee Council ) was rejected by the committee.

Should all be included in the draw?

This question can be a legal nut in the further proceedings. In Norwegian Pant Lottery AS – who in seven years has provided over 140 million to the Red Cross – they are in no doubt about what should be the gold standard:

– The two candidates that received approval application in first round UNICEF Committee and the Red Cross should be granted a license. Lots shall be drawn should be among the five others, according to general manager Gaute Langdal in Norwegian Pant Lottery.

He thinks the process has not been as neat as it should have been.

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Red Cross partner thinks they satisfied the requirements deadline – without making it Langdal describes as adaptations in an appeal process – must drop lot. But he did not get support from the authority.

– How we interpret the regulation, and it is quite evident in this area, it is not possible to weed out certain applicants in a lottery, says Berge Gaming Board.

ESA complaint led to new lottery regime

the reasons for license chaos is eight years back. When opened the coalition government up Pant Lottery – as an exception to the gaming monopoly to Norwegian Tipping.

It resulted in a private lottery operator complained to the ESA, which checks that Norway follows the rules of the EEA Agreement.

It received the Ministry of Culture to expand to five national lottery licenses last year:

Eight players searched:

• Two of these – Red Cross and Unicef ​​Committee – was approved.
• Since three others have been approved for complaints.
• two more can be accepted by the Lottery Board has requested the Authority to consider applications again.

– It is regrettable if any of the applicants have found the process a bit chaotic. Therefore, we will evaluate our procedures in hindsight, and if so, to learn from it in the next announcement, says Berge.

EFTA requires that Norway alter lottery provisions

Lotteries or slots?

One reason that two of the complaints received new treatment, differing assessments of the interactivity of the proposed lottery concepts. In practice it is about to draw the line between pre-drawn lottery and lottery draw takes place at the time the player chooses, as the slots.

– There should be interactive draw in these lotteries, but we have meant that there have been players who have had concepts that emerges as gaming machines. The Tribunal has not been agreed in this, explains Elna Berge Gaming Board.

Strong criticism of the lottery that government will introduce in Norway More than 20,000 of Norwegian Tipping players lose worrying much on gambling – Gambling became an ego trip that governed their lives. Everything else had to give way.