Question: EuroMillions is a transnational lottery, launched on which date, by the Camelot Group, are the operators of the UK National Lottery?

Context articles: Andy Duncan (executive)
National Lottery Commission
Helena Shovelton
South African National Lottery
Camelot Group
Lotto 6/49
National Lottery (Ireland)
EuroMillions
The National Lottery Draws
National Lottery Act 2006

Andy Duncan (born 31 July 1962) is CEO of Camelot UK Lotteries Limited (Camelot Group), the operator of the UK National Lottery.
 Duncan started his career at Unilever – where he spent 17 years in a variety of senior managerial roles – before he was appointed director of Marketing, Communications and Audiences at the BBC.
 Duncan then became chief executive of Britain's Channel 4 television channel from July 2004 to November 2009 – the first not to have a background in programme making – and was the founding chairman of Freeview.
 After a year as CEO of H.R. Owen plc, the UK's leading luxury car business, he became UK managing director of Camelot in October 2011 and was subsequently appointed UK CEO in October 2014.
 Duncan was appointed President of the Advertising Association in January 2014.
The National Lottery Commission was an organisation set up on 1 April 1999 under the National Lottery Act 1998 to regulate the United Kingdom's National Lottery.
 It replaced the Director General and the Office of the National Lottery (Oflot).
 Previously an independent non-departmental public body, it became part of the Gambling Commission on 1 October 2013, which subsequently assumed its responsibilities.
Dame Helena Shovelton, DBE, FRSA, Hon. FRCP (née Richards; born 28 May 1945) is former Chair of the UK National Association of Citizens Advice Bureaux and former Chair of the UK National Lottery Commission.
 She is currently Chief Executive of the British Lung Foundation.
The National Lottery is operated by Ithuba, to whom the licence was granted in 2015.
 The lottery is regulated by the National Lottery Commission, and was established in 2000.
Camelot Group are the operators of the UK National Lottery.
 Camelot Group was awarded the National Lottery franchise in May 1994 (though the lottery did not start until November 1994) and was re-awarded the franchise in 2001 and again in 2007.
 The current franchise period started in 2009 and runs until 2019, with a possible extension of up to five years.
 The governmental body the National Lottery Commission is responsible for deciding who is awarded the franchise.
 The way the franchise was awarded to Camelot in 2001 caused some controversy because state owned Royal Mail held a 20% stake in the Camelot Group.
Lotto 6/49 is one of three national lottery games in Canada.
 Launched on June 12, 1982, Lotto 6/49 was the first nationwide Canadian lottery game to allow players to choose their own numbers.
 Previous national games, such as the Olympic Lottery, Loto Canada and Superloto used pre-printed numbers on tickets.
 Lotto 6/49 led to the gradual phase-out of that type of lottery game in Canada.
The National Lottery (Irish: An Crannchur Náisiúnta ) is the state lottery of Republic of Ireland.
 It was created when the Republic of Ireland government passed the National Lottery Act, 1986 to help raise funds for good causes.
 The eligible causes are sport and recreation, health and welfare, national heritage and the arts, the Irish language, and the natural environment.
EuroMillions is a transnational lottery, launched on 7 February 2004 by France's Française des Jeux, Spain's "Loterías y Apuestas del Estado" and the United Kingdom's Camelot.
 The first draw was held on Friday 13 February 2004 in Paris.
 Initially, only the UK, France and Spain participated, with the Austrian, Belgian, Irish, Luxembourgish, Portuguese and Swiss lotteries joining for the 8 October 2004 drawing.
The National Lottery Draws (previously The National Lottery Live) is the television programme that broadcasts the drawing of the National Lottery in the United Kingdom.
 The programme launched in November 1994 on BBC One, and was initially broadcast live on Saturday nights, before expanding to Wednesday and Friday nights later on.
 From January 2013 to December 2016, the program aired only on Saturday nights.
 On 24 November 2016 it was announced that the Saturday night draws would be dropped and moved to BBC iPlayer from 7 January 2017.
 The draws have since been dropped from BBC iPlayer as of 8 April, 2017, and are now broadcast exclusively from the National Lottery Website, and their official channel on YouTube.
The National Lottery Act 2006 (c 23) is an Act of the Parliament of the United Kingdom.
 It implemented those decisions contained in the National Lottery Licensing and Regulation and National Lottery Funding Decision Documents published on 3 July 2003, and in the Review Decision Document published on 26 November 2004, which required legislation.