Directorate General for the Regulation of Gambling (DGOJ) has announced a new European programme, with an overall cost of €950,620 for research, dealing with gambling-related harm, prevention methods and risk of gambling for players in Spain.
The funding, which was announced by the Ministry of Social Rights, Consumers and Agenda 2030, coincided with the public consultation by the Directorate General for Regulating Gambling on changes to the current Gambling Regulation Act in Spain.
The funding programme, which is published in the BOE, will be managed by the DGOJ and is open to various types of research organisations.
In order to be eligible to apply for funding, applicants will have to demonstrate that their organisation has demonstrated significant experience in research into gambling-related issues. Over the last few years, DGOJ has placed a significant focus on researching gambling-related harms, particularly in youth populations and the increasing overlap between gaming mechanics and gambling mechanics.
In addition to the funding programme for research, the DGOJ launched a public consultation on the weekend on tightening gambling advertising restrictions, with proposals to further limit the visibility of gambling advertising by only allowing advertising of gambling products to appear when users are actively searching for gambling brands online.
Research published last year indicated that the recent reforms had a dramatic effect on the acquisition of new players, with the total number of new online gambling accounts (3.01 million in 2020) compared to (1.35 million in 2023) resulting in a drop of greater than
