Idioa Sagastizabal, a Basque Nationalist Group MP, has asked Spain's government whether it plans specific rules for online lottery sales and measures to protect lottery retailers. Her questions also address whether retailers can use their own digital tools and how commissions are assigned on the SELAE website.
The government's response could affect how lottery retailers sell online and receive commissions.
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Spanish lottery seller associations Defensa Digital and Loteros en la Lucha called on state lottery body SELAE to establish specific rules for online sales and update commissions, according to the report. Their report says the current regulatory and contractual framework is insufficiently clear and cites a network of more than 10,600 sales points and over 18,000 direct jobs.
A press headline reports the publication of 2026 indices for lottery sales services under the Canary Islands’ simplified General Indirect Tax regime. The feed says the measure appeared in the official bulletin that day.
Fenabanca secretary general Cristian Guzmán said the association backed the original Dominican gambling bill but questioned amendments accepted by the Senate. He cited a 200-metre shop separation rule, article 134’s limits on game sales and the removal of labour breaches as grounds for licence revocation. Guzmán welcomed the requirement for operators to pay the Dirección General de Impuestos Internos, which will join the technical council.
Fenabanca, the association representing traditional lottery shops in the Dominican Republic, supported the initial text of the country's new gambling law but questions several amendments introduced by the Chamber of Deputies and later accepted by the Senate, according to Cristian Guzmán, the association's secretary general. Guzmán set out the association's position in an interview, saying it had made observations on the deputies' changes but decided to accept the Senate's provisions so as not to delay approval of the law further.
The House of Lords Liaison Committee heard evidence on gambling advertising on 17 June as part of its review of the industry’s social and economic impact. Campaigners, industry representatives and regulatory figures addressed digital marketing, illegal gambling and the limits of existing reforms. The inquiry follows a 2020 Lords committee report that made 66 recommendations to government.
A Dutch government-commissioned survey found that adults aged 18 to 39 more often named lottery subscriptions in unsolicited door-to-door and street sales. The survey included 1,367 respondents with door-sales experience and 1,170 with street-sales experience in the previous two years; it gave no separate age-group percentages and did not measure purchases. Minister Heleen Herbert plans to submit a cooling-off bill after Council of State advice, but its application to lotteries remains unspecified.
Adults aged 18 to 39 more often named lottery subscriptions among offers made through door-to-door and street sales, researchers at Ipsos I&O found in a Dutch government-commissioned survey. The researchers gave no separate percentages for that age group. People with higher levels of education also named lotteries more often in relation to street sales.