The foundation exploitation Dutch state lottery (SENS) has been set up in 1992, and organises the current state lottery. Moreover SENS have been entitled other organise lotteries.
In 1726, the preamble of the state lottery became, the Generaliteitsloterij set up. Lotteries were in that time a method much by sub-national authorities used for the financial resources what on at vijzelen. In that year it was decided all these different add lotteries in a collective lottery. A question was written out for ideas for this lottery. The proposal of Adolf Huske became, has been calculated, as a winner designated. Its idea was rewarded with 500 guilders. In 1848, the name was changed of the Generaliteitsloterij in Dutch state lottery. In the Dutch information centre for Kansspelen (NIK) in The Hague much of the history of the state lottery have been documented.
The current state lottery is the largest lottery of the Netherlands, with a total turnover of 737.6 million Euro in 2006. Beside the monthly state lottery the foundation organises also a weekly lottery under the name Dayzers. Once per year SENS organise the new year's eve lottery. Finally the SENS sell access cards for football games, concerts, actions and other events by means of Ticketbox. On 24 January 2007 it has been announced that by July 1,2008 the ticketingactiviteiten are struck.
The Dutch state lottery has approximately 140 employees in service. The company turned in 2006 482.3 million Euro to price money and carried out 138.8 million Euro finished to the ministry of finances. The common profit of the state lottery , amounted to Dayzersand Ticketbox hereafter 9.0 million Euro.

National Lottery Agrees to Damages Settlement
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New CEO at Dutch State Lottery
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Dutch Dayzers (Statelottery) Wins Courtcase
By Rob van der Gaast, Lottery Industry Journalist
THE NETHERLANDS (August 27, 2001) -- Today the Dutch court, in a 'summary proceeding', dismissed the objection of the SponsorLottery (www.sponsorloterij.nl) to the launch of the 'Dayzers' lottery by the Statelottery (www.staatsloterij.nl). Both lottery operators clashed on August 14th, 2001, in a Court in the Hague concerning the newly launched weekly lottery 'Dayzers' (www.dayzers.nl), operated by the StateLottery.
The SponsorLottery, operated by Novamedia, wanted the court to stop Dayzers' lottery activities and face a penalty of ten million NLG* for each weekly draw. The first draw already took place on August 11th, 2001.
In the Spring of 1998 the StateLottery tried to launch a birthday lottery, which was halted by a court case decision instituted by the SponsorLottery. Later a higher court decided that the Birthday Lottery could start their activities. However, the SponsorLottery subsequently appealed to the highest court in The Netherlands. Under pressure from the Dutch government both parties agreed not to start a new lottery before the Parliament could discuss changes to the Lottery Act. Unfortunately, the Parliament has postponed the hearing on a new, more liberal Lottery Act on several occasions. This has triggered the StateLottery to anticipate on the possible future legal changes, and to launch the Dayzers lottery without waiting for the outcome of the Government's deliberations. Now the discussions in the Dutch Parliament have been scheduled for November.
It is clear that the verdict announced by the Dutch court is borne by the Dutch Competition Law, which states that agreements can be declared null and void when two companies make agreements to limit a (gaming) market. And that is what the both parties did! New jurisprudence for the EU-members?
In a written statement the SponsorLottery has declared that they are appealing to a Higher Court. Happy Days for the lawyers!
* 1 Euro = 2.2 NLG
SOURCE: Rob van der Gaast, Lottery Industry Journalist. E-mail: rob.topscorer@wanadoo.nl.

Dutch Lotteries go to War Over New Lottery Game
By Rob van der Gaast, Lottery Industry Journalist
THE NETHERLANDS (July 26th, 2001) -- Today the Dutch SponsorLottery will subpoena the Statelottery in a summary proceeding to stop their newly launched weekly 'Dayzers' lottery. The SponsorLottery, operated by Novamedia (which also manages the National PostcodeLottery) took the legal action because it believes that there was a gentlemen's agreement in place with the StateLottery not to start this type of lottery.
The first draw of Dayzers is scheduled to take place on August 11th. With Dayzers the date of one's birthday, wedding day or any other lucky day is the unique lotnumber. The PostcodeLottery had such a lottery in preparation under the name Game of Chance.
Gaming stays a look-alike industry...
Three years ago the Dutch StateLottery started a similar lottery called 'Birthday Lottery'. The tickets were printed, the promotional TV programmes were being broadcast, then just before the actual launch, the competitor of the StateLottery, the good causes NationalPostcodeLottery (www.postcodeloterij.nl), took the matter to court. The PostcodeLottery claimed that:

• they (The SponsorLottery) had registered the name and idea of the 'Day of Chance';
• the introduction of a new lottery would unbalance the Dutch lottery market (and indirectly the beneficiaries);
• unfair competition by the Dutch State.

The first court case was won by the PostCodeLottery and the StateLottery had to stop all its activities in relation to the 'Birthday Lottery'. Later the Statelottery won the appeal against the earlier court's decision. However, the PostcodeLottery subsequently appealed to the Supreme Court. Since the summer of 2000 both operators undertook a gentlemen's agreement that both parties would not start another lottery until new legislation was introduced. This agreement took place in the presence of two under ministers (Finance & Justice). Consequently, the PostcodeLottery stopped all legal action against the StateLottery.
Now, without the permission of and/or contacting The Netherlands Gaming Control Board, which is an independent advisory body in respect of the Dutch gaming monopolies, the Dutch State gave a license for the Dayzers lottery. And once again a Dutch judge has to decide in another court case how to resolve another feud in the Dutch lottery landscape.
SOURCE: Rob van der Gaast, Lottery Industry Journalist. E-mail: rob.top scorer@Wanadoo.nl.

Dutch Lottery Organisations Are at Odds Again
By Rob van der Gaast, Lottery Industry Journalist
THE NETHERLANDS (March 9th, 2001) -- In a press bulletin the Dutch Lotto organization (www.lotto.nl) proudly proclaims: "On just one 1.50 NLG* Lotto-ticket, one lotto-player has won a record prize of 21 million NLG". This took place on Saturday March 3rd, 2001, when the Lotto Jackpot was drawn. The press bulletin continues: "Never before in Dutch lottery history has just one player received such a huge amount".
"Nonsense", said Statelottery (www.staatsloterij.com) spokesman Anne de Lange. "In 1999 one Statelottery Jackpot prizewinner received 18.5 million NLG net. Prizes won in the Dutch Lotto are subject to a lottery tax deduction of 25%. Prizes of the Statelottery are not subject to lottery tax deduction. So, this lotto prizewinner wins 21 million minus 25%, which adds up to only 15.75 million and that is 2.75 million less than the highest prize ever paid out in Dutch lottery history by the Statelottery and not the Lotto!"
This is the latest shot in the feud between the two Dutch WLA-members, the Lotto and the Statelottery, who are involved in a stone-hard competition. It all started last December when the StateLottery tried to stop Lottos 'End of the Year Lotto'. The court in Rotterdam decided then that the Dutch 'Lotto' organisation was allowed to use the lottery names EindeJaarsLot (End of the Year Lot) and EindeJaarsLotto (End of the Year Lotto). The Staatsloterij filed a complaint against the 'Lotto' claiming that the Lotto's game names were causing confusion among lottery players'. The StateLottery has organised the OudeJaarsLoterij (NewYears EveLottery) every year since 1992. But, this was the first year there has been a Lotto 'End of the year Lotto' draw. The StateLottery in the meantime appealed to a higher court.
By the way, the winner of the Lotto's Jackpot of 21 million NLG (or according to the StateLottery 15.75 million NLG), a woman from Amsterdam, informed the Lotto six days (March 9th) after the draw. She said she would like 'to keep it to herself for a while', so stated the Lotto's press bulletin. If the player had only selected the correct numbers (in this case: 9,14, 34, 38 and 43) she would have only won one million NLG. Selecting the winning colour (yellow) brought in the 21 million NLG. See the two different lotto machines.
* 1 Euro = 2.20 NLG
SOURCE: Rob van der Gaast, Lottery Industry Journalist. E-mail: rob.topscorer@wanadoo.nl.

Score, The Lotto two Dutch StateLottery Five
By Rob van der Gaast, Lottery Industry Journalist
THE NETHERLANDS (January 22, 2001) -- The feud between the two Dutch WLA-members, the Lotto (www.lotto.nl) and the StateLottery (www.staatsloterij.nl) continues in the Dutch media. It all started last December when the StateLottery tried to stop Lottos 'End of the Year Lotto'. The court in Rotterdam decided that the Dutch 'Lotto' organisation was allowed to use the game names EindeJaarsLot (End of the Year Lot) and EindeJaarsLotto (End of the Year Lotto).
The Staatsloterij filed a complaint against the 'Lotto' claiming that the Lotto's game names were causing confusion among lottery players'.
The StateLottery has organised the OudeJaarsLoterij (NewYears EveLottery) every year since 1992. But, this was the first year there has been a Lotto 'End of the year Lotto' draw.
The StateLottery in the meantime appealed to a higher court.
A comparison between the two 31st December-lotteries of the Lotto and the StateLottery, who were involved (under the pressure from the Dutch Government) in a merger process for years up until 1999, can be seen in the following table:

	LOTTO	STAATSLOTERIJ
Marketing	The biggest risk to become millionaire	More chance, more money, in the StateLottery
Commenced	1964	1726
Good Causes	Charitas and Sports	Chancellor of the Exchequer
Lottery Name	End of the Year Lotto	New Years Eve Lottery
Draw date	31 December 2000	31 December 2000
Broadcast Time Slot Rating Market Share	SBS 6 19.43- 20.00 hrs 9 = 1,248,000 viewers 24 %	RTL 4 21.30 - 24.00 hrs 12 = 1,775,000 viewers 30 %
Sales	300,000 at 35 NLG* = 10,500,000 NLG	4,180,000 at 50 NLG = 209,000,000 NLG.
Prize Pool	4,987,500 (47,5%)	125.000.000 NLG (60 %) (new record in Dutch lottery history)
Major Prize	2 x 1,000,000	10 x 1,000,000
Jackpot/Superprize	Super Prize (guaranteed drawn) 15,500.000 NLG (not drawn)	20,000,000 NLG (drawn)
Good Causes	2,520.000 NLG (24%)	40,000,000 NLG (20%)
Winning Chances Jackpot/Super Prize 1,000,000 NLG 1,000 NLG	1 in 1.4 million 1 in 243,000 1,050	1 in 4,180 million 1 in 418,000 1 in 846

* 1 Euro = 2,2 NLG
Score is 5 - 2 in favour of the Statelottery¹s New Years Eve Lottery.
SOURCE: Rob van der Gaast, Lottery Industry Journalist. E-mail: rob.topscorer@wanadoo.nl.

Euroscratch.com Convicted of Illegal (online) Gambling
By Rob van der Gaast, Lottery Industry Journalist
THE NETHERLANDS (January 17, 2001) -- The court in The Hague today convicted the Dutch online scratchcard organisation 'www.euroscratch.com' and ordered the company to stop all their activities immediately. The 'Stichting Nationale Instant-Loterij' (Foundation National Instant Lottery, www.lotto.nl) and the 'Stichting de Nationale Sporttotalisator (National Sports Toto, www.lotto.nl), WLA-member(s), were the plaintiffs.
The plaintiffs claimed that Euroscratch, owned by the Dutch company '101 The Netherlands B.V.' should cease immediately with:

• offering or promoting scratch card or other instant lotteries, including offering or promoting such lotteries via the Euroscratch website or via any other website, on penalty of paying a penal sum off NLG 10,000 a day;
• offering of sports betting via Euroscratch website or via any other website, on penalty of paying a penal sum off NLG 10,000 a day;
• using the name 'Karel Kras' and the email address karel@krassen.com on penalty of paying a penal sum off NLG 5,000 a day;

The decision of the President of the court, mr. Von Maltzahn, was:

1. Euroscratch should stop, within 20 days, to offer or promote the scratch lotteries or other instant lotteries via the Euroscratch website or any other website, or by any other way, directly or indirectly;
2. Euroscratch should stop, within 20 days, to offer sports betting via the Euroscratch website or any other website, or by any other way, directly or indirectly.

If Euroscratch does not stop their activities as described above within 20 days, they have to pay a penalty sum of NLG 10,000 a day;

• Euroscratch should stop immediately using the e-mail address karel@krassen.com and every other use of a registered trade mark that looks like a brand of the plaintiff.

If Euroscratch does not stop immediately their activities as described above, they have to pay a penalty sum of NLG 5,000 a day. (1 Euro = 2,2 NLG.)
One of the two general managers of Euroscratch, Mr. Hans Huigsloot, declared after the courts' decision: "At least we have twenty days to appeal for a higher court and we have enough time to think of something spectacular to say goodbye. Watch our website! We can not understand that a Dutch court is protecting a monopoly and is creating a situation that anyone in The Netherlands can gamble on line with a foreign country operator but not with a Dutch operator".
"Euroscratch never thought of working from a Lottery haven. We can work anywhere in the world and make a lot of money. For years we informed the people of the Lotto on what we were doing. Regularly we had contacts with them. We are a Dutch company, so why should we work from the Caribbean. We developed the software, so you could scratch the electronic cards on your computer screen by using your mouse. We worked for companies such as Compaq, Dutchtone, Hot Orange, etc. We helped them to create traffic. And it worked for them. The only thing we had was a concept, we were not operating (free) betting ourselves. Now we are not even allowed to sell our concept and software to anyone in the Whole Wide World. Well, let me tell you that we are going to sell our scratch software concepts anyway", Huigsloot said.
It seems the matter will not end there!
So, for sale the websites 'krassen.com', 'krassen.tv', 'euroscratch.com' and 'euroscratch.nl'.
SOURCE: Rob van der Gaast, Lottery Industry Journalist. E-mail: rob.topscorer@wanadoo.nl.

Dutch StateLottery Returns Eight Million NLG in Unclaimed Prizes to Players
By Rob van der Gaast, Lottery Industry Journalist.
THE NETHERLANDS (January 2, 2001) -- The Dutch StateLottery (Staatsloterij.nl) will return unclaimed prizes from 1999 totaling 8 million NLG to its players. This extra price money will be added to the forthcoming Jackpot, which will raise the jackpot to 12 million NLG. The drawing will take place on January 30, 2001. (1 EURO = 2.20 NLG).
This is the first time that unclaimed prize money has been given back to Statelottery-players. Previously, all unclaimed (expired tickets) prizes fell to the State. In 1997 the Dutch Chancellor of the Exchequer received 6.472 million NLG and in 1998, 9.088 million NLG of unclaimed Statelottery tickets.
In 1999, 45.3 % of all players were registered at the StateLottery organisation.
According to the StateLottery Spokesman, Anne de Lange: "This will be the first time that the unclaimed prizes will be returned to our players. We are allowed to do this, because we are celebrating our 275th birthday jubilee. However, given the strong lottery competition in The Netherlands, we think it will be allowed for the coming years as well".
In 1444 the Dutch city of Utrecht successfully organized the first official lottery, a tombola-Lottery. Other lotteries followed and the betting organisations became more and more professional. In the 17th century the Dutch copied the German Klassen-Lotteries and later they played with 10 Classes. In 1726 the Generaliteytsloterij was organized, which is considered to be the first national Statelottery.
SOURCE: Rob van der Gaast, Lottery Industry Journalist. E-mail: rob.topscorer@wanadoo.nl.