Catalonia, which is one of Spain’s seventeen autonomous communities, has approved a draft gaming legislation in an effort to break the “legal vacuum” created by the internet. Tired of waiting for the promised regulation of online gaming by the central government of the country, at last the government of the administrative division has resolved to pass its own bill, The Gaming and Betting Act, which sets minimum requirements to operate by internet.
In the upcoming future gaming companies operating in Catalonia should have a system that identifies the player and allows knowing, for example, how long he have played. The bill replaced an old law from 1984 which “had become obsolete,” according to director of games and entertainment Mercè Claramunt. The new text will force companies to have headquarters in Catalonia. Currently online gambling generates €350m a year in Spain, but as an unregulated activity it doesn’t pay taxes.
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