IMPLEMENTING THE SOCIAL FUNCTION OF PUBLIC GAMING BUSINESS MANAGEMENT: FOREIGN EXPERIENCE

Abstract

The article considers the foreign experience of the implementation of the social function of public management of gambling business on the example of European countries. The social function of public management of the gambling business is considered by the author as compensating society for the negative consequences of the gambling business with socially beneficial projects that are implemented and financed from the funds received from the gambling business. The conducted research shows that in all European countries socially useful projects are financed with the income from lotteries and gambling: health care, education, sports, culture, etc. There are different ways of accumulating and spending funds. Collected funds are accumulated in the state budget (usually as part of a special fund), transferred to the account of a certain ministry (extra-budgetary state fund); transferred directly to a specific fund (public or private) or charitable organization or accumulated and spent by the gambling organizer himself. Accumulated funds are usually spent directly by transferring funds to a certain fund or charitable organization or indirectly - by transferring funds to the account of a certain ministry or other state body, which distributes funds among beneficiaries. Charitable organizations are characterized by the accumulation and spending of funds by the organizer himself, which is usually a charitable organization. It is necessary to use the experience of European countries in Ukraine and adopt a law that would provide for the accumulation of funds from license payments in the field of gambling business in a special fund of the State Budget of Ukraine and spending them on culture, sports, education, medicine, etc.