CNMC closes complaint against SELAE over online sales conditions
Spain’s National Commission on Markets and Competition (CNMC) closed a complaint against state lottery operator SELAE over alleged discriminatory and anti-competitive conditions for lottery retailers’ websites. The CNMC found that the evidence did not establish discriminatory treatment or show that the contractual link to SELAE’s website, by itself, restricted competition; it said online sales require authorisation and must meet security and control requirements.
The decision leaves SELAE retailers’ online sales subject to authorisation and contractual requirements rather than finding a competition breach.