2010 is the objective as 2009 ends early according to French Budget Minister

According to the Reuters news agency, Eric Woerth, the French Budget Minister, claimed that rules and laws for online sports wagers are anticipated to be ready by the end of 2009 to early 2010; this he claimed while talking at the Palais Omnisports de Bercy in Paris, where he was updated on the framework for fighting bets placed at the French Tennis Federation, the FFT, during the Masters Series.

According to Woerth, the drafting of the bill was virtually finished and the intended bill, before the year ending 2008, will be proposed to the French Council of Ministers.

The minister further stated that during 2009 the bill will be considered by the National Assembly and by the end of 2009 or the beginning of 2010 the bill will be prepared.

The European Union Commission at Brussels has not received the bill, which had originally requested France to make changes in its current monopole on legislation claiming that the French limitations on contests are not in step with the law of the European Union, and that France has not demonstrated the required, suitable and objective steps for liberalizing sports wagers’ provisions.

Nevertheless, Woerth underlined that amendments were not being inserted due to European Union coercion and that he does not comply with this because the EU demanded such a request. He carries this out as it is a necessity as these wagers are in existence anyhow, and it is more beneficial to supervise them. It is anticipated that sport concerns perform a core role in the general framework and to make profits from internet sports betting operations, and the authorities in France intend to set up naming and copyright laws too for utilizing the logos and names of sporting events.

In Paris last year, main tennis matches witnessed sums at stake in internet gambling on tournaments at Bercy as totaling two hundred and fifty million euros, and some one hundred and fifty websites are being monitored by the authorities. Christian Bimes, the president of the FFT and the vice president of the French National Olympic and Sports Organizations claimed that this year it’s already set at one hundred and thirty million euros and by the end of the week it should go beyond the three hundred million euros.   

In the Masters Series at Paris-Bercy, the French tennis player Jo-Wilfried Tsonga beat David Nalbandian from Argentina in three sets 6-3, 4-6, 6-4 last weekend.

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