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Spanish parliament backs measures to limit minors’ access to instant-win gambling

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Spain’s Cortes Generales approved a Vox-backed non-binding proposal on 14 April to reduce children’s and teenagers’ access to instant-win gambling. It urges the government to address advertising, age checks, inspections, sanctions and prevention programmes in the future National Addiction Strategy.

The proposed measures could affect age verification, advertising and compliance expectations for gambling operators in Spain.

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Cejuego urges Spain to align rules for private and public gambling operators

Cejuego told Spain’s Consumer Affairs Ministry that gambling rules treat private operators differently from ONCE and Loterías. Its director general, Alejandro Landaluce, said public operators face more permissive conditions and raised concerns about checks preventing minors and self-excluded people from accessing gambling; Cejuego also called for equivalent obligations across the market.

Cejuego has taken its criticism of regulatory differences between private gambling companies, ONCE and Loterías to Spain's Consumer Affairs Ministry. Its director general, Alejandro Landaluce, argues that public operators have more permissive conditions and flags possible shortcomings in checks meant to stop minors and people on self-exclusion registers from gaining access.

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