The Remote Gambling Association was established in 2005 as a result of a merger between the Association of Remote Gambling Operators (ARGO) and the Interactive Gaming, Gambling and Betting Association (IGGBA). Since then the organization has played an important role in the online gaming industry. The RGA represents most of the world's largest licensed, and market listed remote gambling firms and provides the industry with a single voice on all the issues of importance to regulators, legislators, and key decision makers globally. The RGA and it's 28 members are committed to promoting a regulated and non discriminatory environment for responsible licensed operators. The Remote Gaming Association has released a 170-page report recently containing the results of a study on the relationship between online gambling, sports, and corruption. Contained in the report, it asserts sports corruption from gambling influences is overblown with other significant factors contributing to the breakdown of the integrity of the industry. The report found that sports has no need of funding from online gambling operators to fight corruption. In the report the RGA states that supporting an already well funded cause such as sports operations is adding an extra burden to an already highly taxed industry. Clive Hawkswood, of the RGA, said that the gambling industry already contributes $4.75 billion each year to European Union sports. Adding, "In fact is it something of an irony that this figure would be even higher if so many EU Member States had not decided to ban advertising and sponsorship by private sector gambling operators," The RGA press release said that "whilst engaging with the sporting movement, they have not engaged with the licensed gambling industry to any meaningful degree, and as such those policymakers are in danger of producing unilateral and flawed policy decisions in this area." The RGA claims it's report is factual and makes the request that legislators consider actual evidence in making decisions.