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DGOJ consults land-based gambling groups on proposed Spanish gambling law reform

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Spain’s DGOJ met representatives of ANESAR, FEMARA, FAMACASMAN and ACEO as part of its discussions on a proposed reform of the Gambling Law. ANESAR said the groups opposed expanding public gambling products and terminals into additional sales channels; the DGOJ plans further meetings before drafting a bill, while the report said parliamentary timing could prevent completion in the current legislature.

The proposed reform could affect where public gambling products are sold and the competitive conditions facing land-based operators.

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CIRSA executive says land-based gambling is evolving, not reconverting

CIRSA corporate institutional relations director Carlos Duelo told the XIX Congreso de Juego de Castilla y León that land-based gambling is evolving rather than being reconverted. He cited a 50% tax rate in Catalonia that he said makes bingo unviable and called for harmonised arcade rules across regions.

CIRSA corporate institutional relations director Carlos Duelo said the land-based gambling sector is undergoing an evolution rather than a reconversion, at the XIX Congreso de Juego de Castilla y León in Soria. Duelo opened the conference's first panel discussion, titled on whether the different gambling games are at a crossroads of evolution or reconversion, and answered that there is an evolution and no crossroads, but that there are challenges.

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