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2009-2019 Licence Competition

Key documents relating to the third licence competition are available to download on this page.

For further information about the third licence competition, please visit the licence competition page.

Draft Invitation to Apply (ITA)

This document is the Draft Invitation to Apply (Draft ITA). It was published on 28 April 2006 in order to provide Bidders with further detail on the near final requirements to be contained in the Final ITA.
Final Invitation to Apply (ITA)

The Final Invitation to Apply was published on 29 June 2006. It is available to download on this page as a full document.
Draft Licence

The Draft Licence sets out the detailed conditions relating to the operation of the Lottery. Bidders had to take these conditions into account when responding to the ITA.
Statement of Main Principles

This document sets out the principles that the Commission decided to adopt to structure the competition for the third Licence to operate the UK National Lottery.
A Lottery for the future: discussion paper

A Lottery for the future was a discussion paper that set out the areas where we wished to stimulate an informed debate on the structure of the competition process for the third Licence to operate the National Lottery.
A Lottery for the future: summary of responses

This paper gives a summary of the views expressed in response to our consultation, some of our initial reactions to these, and highlighted the areas where we intended to carry out further work.
Statement of Reasons

The Statement of Reasons was published on 7 August 2007. It sets out the assessment of the main factors the Commission weighed in reaching its decision to select Camelot Group Plc as the Preferred Bidder.

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