Valencia's regional government plans to allocate €700,000 from gaming sanctions to prevention and operator inspections, regional minister Ruth Merino said. The forthcoming regional budgets will direct 60% to prevention through the health department and 40% to permanent inspection posts.
The allocation directs sanction revenue towards prevention programmes and increased inspection capacity for operators.
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The Valencian government has approved a decree governing gambling activity in the region, reportedly ending the transitional moratorium on machine licences. It bars new authorisations for B machines in hospitality venues, except for replacements or renewals, and permits gambling venues to relocate only if they increase their distance from schools.
The Generalitat Valenciana’s 2026 budget project forecasts €174,470,200 in revenue from gambling taxes and charges. It estimates €106,151,450 from type B and C gaming machines and €37,767,050 from bingo, and plans 15,000 inspections and control actions during the year.
UNAD submitted amendments to the Valencian regional government’s proposed update to its gambling decree, seeking tighter rules on gambling venues and machines. Its proposals include applying location limits near youth leisure centres, sports facilities and parks, implementing saturated zones to prevent venue concentration, and progressively limiting amusement machines in hospitality venues.
The Generalitat Valenciana published a public-information notice for a draft decree setting out proposed rules for the region’s gambling sector. The draft would allow new type B machines in hospitality venues only as replacements, prevent growth in the number of gaming venues, and set proposed minimum distances of 850 metres from schools and child-protection spaces and 500 metres between gambling venues.
A Generalitat Valenciana report counted 512 gaming halls in the region at the end of 2025, compared with 285 in 2015. It linked the rise to regulatory changes, including a 2015 rule increasing the minimum distance between halls, and said 31 hall relocations were authorised under the previous regional government while 29 licences were later extended.