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Valencia advances gambling planning decree with 850-metre venue buffer

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Valencia's Gambling Commission has advanced a planning decree to the next stages of review after public submissions, according to the regional government. The draft retains an 850-metre minimum distance between gambling halls and educational centres and limits new machine authorisations in hospitality venues to replacements; the commission also approved its 2024 gambling report.

The draft’s venue buffer and replacement-only machine authorisations could constrain gambling-site locations and hospitality expansion.

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Cejuego asks Spain’s Consumer Ministry to investigate underage play claims against ONCE and SELAE

Cejuego said it had reported ONCE and Spain’s state lottery operator, SELAE, to the Ministry of Consumer Affairs over claims that minors and self-excluded people could gamble with them. Cejuego director general Alejandro Landaluce called for the ministry to make checks; the claims are allegations, not findings described in the report. The association also argued that public and private operators should face equivalent consumer-protection and advertising rules.

Spain's Cejuego has asked the Ministry of Consumer Affairs to carry out checks on ONCE and SELAE over claims that the public operators allow minors and people on self-exclusion registers to gamble, the association's director general said. Alejandro Landaluce, Cejuego's director general, said the association had raised the matter with the ministry and that the claims concern both ONCE's scratchcards and Loterías. The allegations are not findings, and the report describes no decision by the ministry or by the DGOJ.

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