Today’s policy of gambling in Spain permits autonomous regions to provide license agreements; such a method could be substituted for a better tighter system encompassing the entire country as soon as 2009, namely, next year, where the provinces and the central government share the taxes between them.

This week a report came out in e-Gaming Review that the issue engaged an important priority on the protocol of the majority of current three-month meetings between central and provincial gaming and betting authorities which earlier this week took place in Barcelona. It seems that the higher National Gaming Commission (LAE) representatives, the tax authorities in Spain, the Ministry of Home Affairs, the Industry Ministry as well as seventeen provincial gaming bureaus in Spain all took part in the proceedings.

At Legal Link, a legal firm in Spain, Xavier Munoz, who is an expert in betting and gaming laws, explained to EGR that the evenhanded share of taxes arising from a regulatory system, advertising monitoring, matching laws of the EU and protecting exposed parties of players were the representatives’ chief concerns. Concerning the last mentioned, it was suggested setting up a central registry of self removed and removed problematic participants together with authorized operators having access to this database assuring the ousting of all problematic gamblers.   

Strictly enforcing a future system of regulations, together with prosecuting those illegal operators is considered of great significance in the Spanish market.

The discussions held this week indicated a new epoch in Internet gambling in Spain, in tandem with strictly committing to a regulation instead of prohibiting, and this is assumed to bring in its wake specified deliberations and a procedure to prepare a draft  that would make 2009 the target date. The decision in Spain should be considered as an important development for the sphere together with the procedures in France to open earlier market restrictions.

The procedure for the draft should take place by the time the central and provincial bodies sit again in the fall.

Posted on: July 5, 2008

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