Call to the European Union

1. We ask the EU Member States to allow charity lotteries to be established where they do not yet exist, to provide NGOs with access to sustainable funding.

2. We ask the EU Member States that do have charity lotteries not to discriminate them with regard to other (state) lotteries.

3. We ask European politicians and decision makers to recognize charity lotteries as efficient fundraising mechanisms offering the necessary long-term institutional support for NGOs in contributing to the solution of global challenges and to enable NGOs to make use of this type of fundraising tools in all EU Member States.

4. We ask the European Parliament and Commission to define the concept of a charity lottery in (future) EU legislation in which the following aspects are taken into account:

- Private initiative (without governmental interference in the distribution of the funds);
- Funds are additional to state subsidies;
- No private profits are made;
- A minimum of 20% of turnover is directed to charitable organisations (next to prize money and operational costs).