The Spanish government has outlined plans to better protect problem gamblers by unifying the country’s numerous state self-exclusion registers and the national online self-exclusion register.
The current system sees each autonomous community operate its own self-exclusion register, which prohibits excluded persons from gambling at a land-based venue within that province, but not in another province or online.
Meanwhile, the national self-exclusion register operates across the country but only regulates access to online gaming and not land-based venues, [...]