Spain's DGOJ to publish advertising decree impact report within weeks

Spain’s gambling regulator will publish its impact report on the 2020 advertising decree within weeks. The Dirección General de Ordenación del Juego (DGOJ) said on 15 October 2026 that its director general, Mikel Arana, gave a brief presentation of the report at the Gaming in Spain Conference 2026 in Madrid.

The report assesses Royal Decree 958/2020 of 3 November on commercial communications for gambling activities. The notice does not give its findings.

The details

• Keynote: Arana reviewed the main rules approved and the regulatory initiatives under way.
• Joint deposit limits: Justo Sancho, director of the DGOJ’s safer gambling control division, took part in a panel on how operators implement the system.
• How the system works: approved by the Council of Ministers on 23 June, it sets, for the first time, one overall limit on a person’s deposits across all the online operators where they hold an account. The DGOJ manages it.
• Relation to the old system: it complements the earlier arrangement, in which each operator set the limit independently.
• Also covered: consumer protection, new products such as prediction markets, and illegal gambling.

The big picture

The DGOJ also opened a consultation on 13 October on a draft resolution approving a mechanism for detecting risky player behaviour. Comments are accepted until 22 October 2026.

What’s next

The regulator says the advertising impact report will be presented publicly in the coming weeks. The notice gives no date.