The International Betting Integrity Association (IBIA) has condemned the Greek Governments intends to set a 35% net gaming income (GGR) charge rate for administrators and proposition to present high permitting expenses.

While the IBIA invited the Governments choice to refresh its web based betting guidelines, which was submitted to the European Commission in January, it has various concerns with respect to the proportionality, viability and thinking behind certain recommendations.

Under specific investigation was the high GGR charge rate forced on administrators, which the IBIA said is especially high and will go about as a hindrance for administrators applying for licenses, straightforwardly affecting shopper action in the controlled market.

The IBIA included the proposed internet wagering permit expense of 3m ($3.26m) for a long time is extortionate contrasted with the remainder of the European market, where yearly charges go from 2,200 (2,734) to 19,333 in the UK.

The IBIA report stated: The methodology proposed by the Greek experts according to authorizing charges is off the mark with worldwide standards.

IBIA doesn’t accept the troublesome authorizing charge proposed and high tax assessment in Greece will demonstrate fruitful in pulling in administrators or amplifying the buyers diverting to that advertise.

There is a reasonable risk numerous purchasers will keep on being pulled in to wagering items in other all the more monetarily profitable markets, invalidating Greek administrative markets.»

The IBIA likewise referenced its interests about biased player age limitations, with 21 the base age for web based betting in Greece.

It encouraged the European Commission to demand Greece diminish the web based betting age to 18 to be predictable with other EU nations, saying the present age limitations raise EU rivalry law concerns, preferring OPAP items which can be gotten to by clients matured 18.