Assisting in the development of those policies will be state-level gaming and video games sectors. What the update didn’t say is that Spain will ban loot boxes completely, as some media outlets have erroneously reported.<\/p>\n
Responsible gambling is a recurrent theme in Spain. In Andalusia, the southernmost autonomous community on the mainland, an education initiative on the topic is returning. This comes thanks to the Andalusian Federation of Associations of Recreational Machines, Salons and Leisure (ANMARE, for its Spanish acronym) and the intervention of a local legislator.<\/p>\n
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At ANMARE’s last General Assembly meeting, its members unanimously approved the resumption of the Responsible Gaming Accreditation Program of the Spanish Confederation of Gambling Entrepreneurs. This is a plan that began in 2020, but which ANMARE suspended that same year because of COVID-19.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n
The Andalusian government reduced its funding for the program as a result of the pandemic. However, the provincial deputy of political party Unidas Podemos (United We Can) in the province of Granada, Alejandra Dur\u00e1n, convinced the government to restore funding, and even increase it.<\/p>\n
Throughout the training, the companies associated with ANMARE trained their workers in the need to make responsible use of recreational machines. They also reinforce the use of the devices as recreational or leisure entertainment to reduce problem gambling risks.<\/strong><\/p>\nAll eight Andalusian provinces will see the arrival of the program. Afterward, ANMARE will transfer the training to the employees of the hospitality companies that have installed recreational gambling machines.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
While different autonomous communities in Spain advance their own frameworks to regulate gambling, the Government of Spain took a step forward as well. This week, an update to the Gambling Regulation Law appeared in the country’s Official Gazette. The update includes the approved amendments to a bill to modify Spain’s legal gambling framework. It’s still […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":64,"featured_media":220293,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[62,13592],"tags":[],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\n
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