Market focus: Spain
Our two-minute briefing on Spain, Europe's fifth largest economy and which, three years after it announced its intention to do so, now looks close to regulating online gambling.
SPAIN continues to edge closer to draft rules regulating online gaming, three years after these were first announced.
The Sectorial Gaming Commission, a grouping of the gaming authorities of the country’s 17 autonomous regions and its two federal gaming authorities, the State Lotteries Monopoly and National Gaming Board, met in January to discuss the draft.
Tax provisions look set to define its fate, with regional regulators likely to veto national laws in favour of local regulation if the scheme does not give them a large enough tax share.
X Broadband penetration: 58%
X Average annual gambling spend per adult: 302
X Onshore and offshore gross gaming yield (GGY): 592.9m, representing 370% growth from the 127
X Adult population: 35.1m
X Offshore activity by vertical: bingo “ 217.7m (39%); poker “ 129.8m (23.5%); betting “ 119.3m (21.5%); casino “ 87.9m (16%).
Data source: H2 Gambling Capital. All figures 2010 unless otherwise stated