Who put a stop to online gambling?

11.03.2009, News from the Gaming Business in Spain

Who put a stop to online gambling? It is difficult to put gates to the field and even more if the field is digital. The need to regulate online gambling, and thereby avoid that generated revenues go directly to tax haven and not to the Treasury Department led the Spanish government some time ago to put on the table the need to put it a stop. But the much-anticipated regulation seems far become reality. Or at least a unique reality.

Already has passed a year since the Government undertakes to put limits on the online bettings. The Executive seized the Law on 'Measures to Promote the Information Society' to drop a clause in which it undertook to 'regulate the gaming and gambling activities, particularly those conducted through interactive systems based on electronic communications' .

But these words can stay in a simple statement of intent. Although, the government maintains its firm intention to regulate the sector,there is no deadline for the decree law that ordered it. 'Spain is not a country where there is an express statement that prohibits this type of game,' said yesterday María Ángeles González, secretary general of the Technical Committee of the National Game Commission, the Ministry of the Interior. Thus, she making believe that the Internet gambling will be regulated in Spain as it is, for example in the UK or Malta. In fact, the Mediterranean island is, next to Gibraltar, a major operational centers in the game on the network.

Once drafted, the future bill respect the 'rules' relating to the regulation of' for operators licensed in other states of the European Union ', said yesterday the secretary general of the National Game Commission during a conference held in Madrid.

But the executive can collide with reality autonomous. The powers on the regulation of gambling are transferred to the Autonomous Communities, while the Interior Ministry has under its control to monitor and sanction. Not to mention that the Ministry of Finance will have something to say about the future tax system interactive betting, both online and those that may be developed by TDT.

So, the industry can see how each of the 17 autonomous communities (plus the autonomous cities of Ceuta and Melilla) implement different rules before the Government put in place a state regulation. Regionalization that could force each company to have a subsidiary based in each region having its own computer servers, moreover, a bank account for monitor the payments to players.

Madrid preparing the first licenses to private companies to operate in this region, as said Fernando Prats, director general of taxation and planning and management of gaming. The Community of Castilla y Leon expected to have drafted the new rules before the end of 2009.

Given the expected disparity of regulations, the secretary general of Codere, Rafael Catalá, yesterday criticized the 'inactivity' of the Government and called for "flexibility for the operators', advocating a uniformity in the regionals criteria.

Source: CincoDias.com Spanish Gaming NEWSLETTER #8

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