Spain

Spain regulates online gambling through the Direccion General de Ordenacion del Juego (DGOJ) under Law 13/2011. Operators need a general licence (betting, contests or other games, granted for ten renewable years) plus singular licences for each vertical - slots, roulette, poker or betting - with new entrants admitted through periodic licensing windows. Tax is 20% of GGR for most online games, reduced to roughly 10% in the enclaves of Ceuta and Melilla. Spain's recent regulatory energy has concentrated on player protection and financial-crime controls rather than tax. From June 2026, cross-operator joint deposit limits take effect, defaulting to EUR 700 per day, EUR 1,750 per week and EUR 3,300 per four weeks, monitored in real time by the DGOJ across all licensed operators - a notable step toward market-wide affordability control. A draft royal decree tightens anti-money-laundering rules ahead of Spain's 2026 FATF evaluation, requiring the payment-method holder to match the account holder. From March 2026, operators must deploy AI-driven detection of risky play, replacing generic play-responsibly messaging with data-driven warnings. The overall trajectory is toward more intrusive, technology-enabled safer-gambling obligations layered onto an established licensing framework. For operators, Spain is a mature, moderately taxed market whose compliance burden is rising fastest in the responsible-gambling and AML domains, with the cross-operator deposit-limit regime standing out as an unusually centralised control over customer spending.