Idioa Sagastizabal, a deputy for Bizkaia in the Basque Parliamentary Group (EAJ-PNV), has submitted a question in Spain’s Congress of Deputies about the regulation of online lottery sales. Spain currently has no regulatory framework covering online sales by lottery administrations. The question asks whether the Government plans to approve specific regulation for online lottery sales, what measures it will take to ensure points of sale are not required to sell lottery products exclusively through the website of the Sociedad Estatal de Loterías y Apuestas del Estado (SELAE), and whether the state entity’s website will be modified so that the corresponding commission is assigned to a point of sale.
According to the Tribunal de Cuentas, during the 2022 Christmas Draw 9.4% of users, almost 2.5 million people, purchased through the administrations’ websites, while 0.17% used the public operator’s direct channel. The associations have also asked for the commission on the Christmas draw to rise from 4.5% to 6%, as well as increases for draws held throughout the rest of the year. SELAE is responsible for proposing changes to price, series, or prize amounts, but these must be authorized through a ministerial order, as gaming rules establish that such adjustments require Government approval.
Original story: elmundo.es.