Reports SPAIN - ONLINE UPDATE


young people (under the ages of 18 and 34) represent 50 per cent of online game users.


Another study commissioned by gaming trade association, Cejuego, in 2019, entitled ‘Gaming and Society,’ revealed nine out of 10 adults in Spain see gambling as an acceptable pastime and 29 million people had played at least one type of game during that year.


Around 6.6 million people (20 per cent of the population) had visited a casino, bingo or gambling facility in 2018 and 1.5 million people had gambled online during the same period.


Te incidence of problem gambling in Spain is said to be between 0.3 per cent and 0.5 per cent of the population aged 15-65 years compared to 34 per cent and 5.1 per cent addiction levels to tobacco and alcohol respectively.


Communications spokesperson, Alba Castro, at Spanish online gaming association, JDigital, said: “First and foremost, we want to recall that the majority of Spanish players use of online gambling is totally moderate, controlled and responsible, as shown by the prevalence figures of problematic gambling in the country and that Spain is the second European country with the lowest incidence of problematic gambling, ahead of others such as Germany, Finland or France.


“Tese figures show that the social alarm related to online gambling is unjustified in Spain and that this activity is not a public health problem, as the director of the DGOJ acknowledged.


“Tat being said, we want to emphasise that the new Royal Decree will greatly affect the internal operations of online gambling companies in Spain, which will have to re-adapt their systems and make significant investments to comply with the regulator’s proposals. Te sector has warned that overregulation and control of user activity can encourage users to seek alternative options for this leisure activity, such as illegal operations, places where they can obtain a less intrusive gambling experience. As an association, we will work as hard as possible to avoid this.


“One of the main aspects of the new draft Royal Decree is the creation of specific thresholds to classify gamblers. At JDigital we believe that trying to establish objective thresholds, whatever they may be, to determine the way in which whoever can play legally should, or can play, seriously undermines the supposed effectiveness of any measure that wants to be imposed to protect players.


“Each of them has its circumstances and what for some people might be indicative of a certain type of behaviour, is not at all for others. We understand that absolute relativism is not possible, but in our opinion the DGOJ should rethink some of the thresholds it has established in the project.”


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