{"id":3576,"date":"2020-02-17T10:11:54","date_gmt":"2020-02-17T10:11:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/?p=3576"},"modified":"2026-04-24T07:49:19","modified_gmt":"2026-04-24T10:49:19","slug":"psn-online-gambling","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/psn-online-gambling","title":{"rendered":"Spanish party unveils proposal to regulate online gambling"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>The PSN party is promoting an initiative in the European Parliament to regulate online gambling in all Member States.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<!--more-->\n\n\n\n<p>Spain.- PSN MP Adriana Maldonado, a member of the Committee on the Internal Markets and Consumer Protection, has unveiled an initiative in the European Parliament to regulate online gambling and advertising.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Socialist Europarliamentary has sent a letter to all members of the European Parliament to collect the maximum number of signatures and send it to the Internal Market Commissioner,\u00a0<strong><em>Thierry Breton<\/em><\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The brief aims to \u201calert the problem of online gaming at social and national level in all member states,\u201d explained the PSN in a statement. In the letter, the MP from Navarra considers that&nbsp;\u201cthe efforts of the European Commission for the EU countries to share good practices, cooperate with each other and even apply measures voluntarily, have not been sufficient.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Moreover, she urges the Community Executive to \u201cestablish a legislative framework with minimum European standards in the field of online gaming advertising\u201d as \u201cthe ads are often misleading and biased and can lead to insane and harmful behaviours.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>Restrictions in Spain<\/strong><\/h4>\n\n\n\n<p>Measures to&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/gaming-spain-aprocomar-group\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\"><strong><em>limit the gaming industry<\/em><\/strong><\/a>&nbsp;in Spain will launch in the coming weeks. However, it has already transpired that gambling advertising in Spain will be allowed for 4 hours in the morning. It will cover 1 to 5 a.m.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Minister of Culture, Alberto Garz\u00f3n, will meet with industry representatives to explain measures the regulation includes, such as restrictions for gambling advertising in Spain. For that matter, he met with Cejuego, as they had announced earlier this week.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The government explained the measures will cover three areas. On one hand, they\u2019ll establish the hours when gaming advertising in Spain will air. Moreover, advertising must relate to betting on an event that is happening at the time of launching. Finally, they will reduce advertising permissions in general.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>After announcing his interest in regulating the operations of the industry, Garz\u00f3n added that he will seek to dialogue with the representatives to reach an agreement beneficial to all around gaming in Spain.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The PSN party is promoting an initiative in the European Parliament to regulate online gambling in all Member States.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":3578,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"is_press_release":false,"is_interview":false,"is_opinion":false,"focusai_summary":"The PSN party is advancing an initiative within the European Parliament to establish a legislative framework with minimum European standards for online gambling and advertising across all Member States. This move aims to address perceived inadequacies of voluntary measures and misleading advertising. Concurrently, Spain is implementing new restrictions, limiting gambling advertising to specific early morning hours and requiring relevance to live events, following discussions with industry bodies.","focusai_entities":"PSN party, Adriana Maldonado, European Parliament, Thierry Breton, European Commission, Alberto Garz\u00f3n, Cejuego","focusai_location":"Spain, European Union","focusai_target_profile":"ceo_executive (0.9), regulator (1.0), compliance_legal (0.95), operator_casino (0.9), affiliate_publisher (0.9), marketing_crm (0.95), investor_analyst (0.9), supplier_vendor (0.75), journalist_researcher (0.9)","focusai_suggestions":[{"label":"EU Regulatory Impact?","query":"What is the projected timeline for the European Parliament's initiative to establish minimum online gambling advertising standards, and what specific enforcement mechanisms are being considered for cross-border compliance within the EU's governance frameworks?"},{"label":"Spain Ad Restrictions?","query":"How will the new Spanish advertising restrictions, particularly the 1-5 a.m. window and live event relevance, impact the gross gaming revenue (GGR) and player acquisition costs for licensed B2C operators in the market?"}],"footnotes":""},"categories":[16331,156],"tags":[229,2297],"class_list":["post-3576","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-elsewhere-news","category-regulation-news","tag-gambling","tag-spain"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3576","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3576"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3576\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":777008699,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3576\/revisions\/777008699"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3578"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3576"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3576"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusgn.com\/asia-pacific\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3576"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}