The Netherlands’ Kansspelautoriteit has reduced the evidence administrators need to register clients with gambling problems in Cruks. The regulator says administrators can now rely more on their professional judgement, with registration possible within two weeks; inclusion blocks access to legal online gambling, slot halls and casinos.
Administrators can seek to exclude clients from legal gambling with fewer supporting documents.
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Belgium’s Gaming Commission says a third party can apply to exclude someone from gambling, after which the person is notified by registered letter and added to the EPIS list. The person can seek to end the exclusion only after one year and must provide evidence of steps taken to address their gambling problem.
Spain’s Ministry of Social Rights, Consumer Affairs and the 2030 Agenda and the Autonomous City of Ceuta extended their agreement linking their gambling self-exclusion registers, according to the published addendum. The four-year extension runs until 8 November 2030. The agreement enables automated information exchange so registrations in one jurisdiction are recognised in the other.
According to a notice in the BOE of 31 October 2026, an addendum has been published extending the collaboration agreement between the Ministry of Social Rights, Consumer Affairs and the 2030 Agenda and the Autonomous City of Ceuta. The agreement concerns the interconnection of their respective registers of people entered in the prohibited-persons registers. The addendum adds four years to the original agreement, signed in November 2022, and sets 8 November 2030 as the new end date.
Mendoza, San Juan and San Luis signed an agreement to make voluntary gambling self-exclusions apply across all three Argentine provinces, according to the report. The system will cover physical casinos and authorised online platforms, and the regulators have up to 120 days to integrate their systems and implement secure information sharing.
Mendoza, San Juan and San Luis have signed an interprovincial agreement on voluntary gambling self-exclusion in Argentina. Under the agreement, a person who voluntarily asks to be restricted from gambling in one of the provinces will also be covered by that restriction in the other two.
The UK Advertising Standards Authority upheld a complaint against Optival Ltd, which operates bestbookiesandbettingsites.co.uk, after a betting advertisement appeared in response to a search for self-exclusion information. Optival said it had not intentionally targeted those searches and that automated matching may have triggered the ad; it said it would expand its negative keyword safeguards.
A complaint about a gambling-related search advertisement that appeared when a user searched for “self exclusion bookies” has been upheld against betting affiliate website bestbookiesandbettingsites.co.uk. The ruling concluded that the advertisement had been irresponsibly targeted and might have been displayed to individuals who were actively trying to reduce or stop their exposure to gambling. The regulator’s Wednesday release stated that the paid search advertisement promoted online bookmakers and welcome bonuses following a user’s search for self-exclusion information.
The UK Advertising Standards Authority ruled against gambling affiliate website Best Bookies and Betting Sites after one of its search advertisements appeared in response to a query seeking self-exclusion information. The report says the ruling concerned an advertisement shown to a user looking for help with self-exclusion.