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Spain’s regional governments challenge DGOJ role in land-based gambling oversight

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Spain’s 17 autonomous communities sent a consensus document to the DGOJ and the Gambling Policy Council asserting their exclusive authority over physical gambling venues, casinos and gaming halls. The communities objected to a proposed central coordinating role in protecting vulnerable users in land-based gambling, according to Ramón Cubián, Madrid’s gambling-competence lead.

The dispute concerns which authorities oversee land-based gambling venues and local player-protection measures.

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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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