DGOJ tests Spain’s cross-operator deposit limits

Spain's DGOJ reportedly adds up each player's deposits across all licensed operators and blocks the next deposit once the total passes €700 a day, €1,750 a week or €3,300 every four weeks. The mechanism has reportedly been in place since 21 October. The system is currently running in a test phase. It is due to become mandatory on 26 March 2027.

Before the change, each operator applied its own default limit of €600 a day, €1,500 a week and €3,000 a month. Nothing prevented players from spreading their spending across several platforms.

A player who lowers the limit sees the change applied at once. A request to raise or remove the limit needs three business days to take effect, and the rules permit only one increase every three months. The check is carried out by the DGOJ itself in real time, and operators do not share data with each other; the Ministry says this design is based on data protection. The Ministry describes the joint cap as additional and complementary to the limits operators already apply. Consumo expects the measure to affect mainly people who play with several operators, roughly a third of active players.

In Germany, the 2021 State Treaty on Gambling set a limit of €1,000 a month that counts deposits across all authorised operators at once. In Belgium, the weekly deposit limit applies on each website rather than per person.

Operators will have to connect their systems to the DGOJ tool during the remaining test period. The trade body Jdigital warned in June about the risk the measure poses to the legal market.