Tag Archives: Alberto Garzon

Spain’s Ministry of Consumer Affairs has stressed the need for tougher monitoring of online gambling, having increased year-on-year ‘sector penalties’ handed to licensed operators.  The warning follows a sector update, which revealed that during the first half of 2022, the Ministry had issued “sanctions for serious infractions” on 53 operators, with fines totalling €84.3m. Of the 53 individual penalties, the …

Spain‘s gambling market will undertake significant changes following the Senate’s approval to reform the Gambling Law of 2011.  On Wednesday, Senate members voted 146 in favour (vs 113 abstentions) to amend the gambling law to “improve controls on sports manipulations, betting fraud and expand protections for problem gamblers.”  The headline proposal will allow Spanish gambling regulator DGOJ to operate a …

Spanish media has reported that the Ministry of Consumer Affairs ‘will follow Japan and Belgium’ in prohibiting minors (under-18s) from engaging with loot box rewards or incentives.  The decision will be announced as Alberto Garzon, Spain’s Minister of Consumer Affairs finalises his department’s first draft of a ‘legislative decree’ on the governance of video game purchases and consumer rights. The …

Alberto Garzon, Spain’s Minister of Consumer Affairs, has vowed that Spain will become the first European country to have a ‘specific law’ to govern loot box and video game incentives.  The measure was declared at a video games seminar hosted by the Ministry of Consumer Affairs, which since 2020 has led the federal overhaul of Spain gambling laws. Garzon declared …

Spanish online gambling trade association Jdigital has reported positive developments on its joint appeal against the Royal Decree on Advertising which imposed a federal ban on gambling advertising across Spain’s 17 autonomous communities.  Last week, Spain’s Supreme Court informed stakeholders that Jdigital’s appeal, sanctioned with Spanish media counterpart AMI, could be put forward for a Constitutional Review. Back in January …

The Spanish government has ordered state-owned companies to comply with a 2022 Budget Law order that will demand incumbents to drastically reduce their sports marketing and sponsorship budgets.  Enterprises such as SELAE, Spain’s state-run lotteries society and monopoly counterparts RENFE (rail networks) and Correos (the post office) can no longer spend more than 2% of their accumulated net profits on …

CNMV, the National Securities Market Commission of Spain has approved amendments made to the 2011 Gaming Law sanctioned by the Ministry of Consumer Affairs. The independent agency responsible for Spain’s financial regulation and market securities endorsed new amendments imposed on the 2011 Gaming Law that require safer gambling provisions to be treated as key criteria for market competition. The business …

Spain’s Ministry of Consumer Affairs has launched a public consultation seeking guidance on its objective to overhaul the structure of Spain’s current problem gambling treatment support network, operating across the nation’s 17 autonomous communities.  Launched on 4 January, the consultation forms part of the Ministry’s ongoing ‘Decree Project’ that aims to establish new safer gambling laws that will be adopted …

Alberto Garzon, Spain’s Minister of Consumer Affairs, has warned licensed gambling incumbents to prepare for further drastic changes to the country’s gambling laws, which will focus on raising all-around consumer protections and operator conduct.  Appointed last year by Spain’s coalition government to overhaul a fragmented gambling regime, Garzon underlined his ministerial duty in seeking to centralise the governance of gambling …

Alberto Garzón, Spain’s Minister of Consumer Affairs, has revealed his department’s intentions to undertake a wholesale review of the country’s gambling’s tax regime across all licensed verticals. The minister made his statement in an interview with Europa Press radio, revealing that Spain’s Ministry of Consumer Affairs had ‘studied potential new formulas to tax gambling and sports betting operators’. Garzón maintained …