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In the Economy Committee, DP deputy Jorida Tabaku said that she is not concerned about the companies that will offer gambling activities, but about the public good and that this draft law reduces competition and concentrates the activity in a few companies, as happened with the fuel companies. and in other sectors.
According to Tabak, this tendency where laws narrow the market and eliminate competition is harmful.
" First, to err is human and as the government admitted it failed with the closure of gambling as it has admitted and in the relationship it has brought here where it is said "even though gambling activity was prohibited by law this activity was channeled into informal way" always the activities that are limited increase informality and create illegality. Something we said in 2018 where we had discussions on this issue.
Our request then was to regulate the market with these operators who are here and not to try to concentrate it, so we eliminate the competition, give few licenses and reduce the exercise of the market to these four or five licenses that are given, and in fact this happened. The activity was increased informally and the government was incompetent, ignorant or corrupt, as you and the citizens who allowed it to flourish on the ground know this.
We return to a moment where the law has come for online sports betting. From this return, I have some concerns when looking at the law. It turns out that from the public consultation report, all those groups or companies that have been consulted do not appear to have exercised the activity of sports betting. So, they have consulted the FSF, KOKSH, Sepcial Olympics in Albania and then four or five casinos or resorts that I look at by name because I asked the Ministry of Finance and we still don't have any information. Have you been consulted?
Secondly, in relation to the Albanian Council that deals with gambling problems. One of the problems I ran into with MFE was advertising with online media. How is this practice in new countries? Given the new technologies and algorithms that are used to bring it back to attention.
In the relation and draft law, some criteria are argued, specific in its article 11, where these criteria are foreseen in relation to those who will exercise this activity and will be licensed; The founding capital is not less than ALL 40 million, one of the shareholders must have experience in EU and OECD countries. From here there are four companies that have these criteria. So it is happening more or less like in the incinerators. The company that has some shares in a foreign company wins, as long as the license is won, the foreign company runs away and only the Albanian company gets the license. These criteria are all seconded and licenses will be granted only to these companies that have received permission.
The first is the increase in informality and the second is the concentration in a few hands. What does concentration do in a few hands? I am not concerned about the companies that provide the gambling activity but for the public good and this bill reduces competition and concentrates the activity in a few companies as has happened with the fuel companies and in other sectors. This tendency where laws narrow the market and eliminate competition is harmful. It is harmful because it destroys the market structure and competition, and this is what Transparency International has talked about when it shows state capture. That these laws make and guide when these companies exercise their activity ," said Tabaku.
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