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The European Sports Security Association (ESSA) is Europe’ leading sports integrity monitoring unit. Established in 2005 by Europe’s premier online sports book operators with a sole mandate to protect and promote integrity in sport, ESSA’s membership now includes all of Europe’s leading private sector bookmakers, representing tens of thousands of individual bets – offline as well as online – each week. ESSA protects and promotes sporting integrity in three ways. First, by acting as an early warning system to alert sports governing bodies and regulators of any suspected illegal betting among its membership. Secondly, by working with partners in sports and other sporting stakeholders to implement educational campaigns and other grassroots activities aimed at tackling the problem of match fixing at its root and thirdly by acting as a leading voice in international dialogue aimed at finding a lasting solution to the problem of corruption in sport. A non-profit organisation funded entirely by its members, ESSA’s unrivalled access to industry intelligence makes it the most reliable source of information on betting activity in the EU and a trusted partner of over twenty sports governing bodies including the likes of FIFA, UEFA, WTA and MLS with whom it has Memorandums of Understanding in place, and sports regulators, including the IOC with whom it has also established close relations.
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ESSA ENDORSES IOC RECOMMENDATIONS
2nd Feb 2012 – ESSA today welcomed the joint declaration of the IOC Working Group on the Fight Against Irregular and Illegal Betting on Sports, announced in Lausanne this afternoon.
ESSA changes betting
ESSA's early warning system. Fully operational and allows the members to quickly and efficiently determine if any fraudulent activity is taking place.In 2005 the leading online operators in the EU ....