Since all the countries within the European Union starts liberalizing online gambling laws, the government officials of Spain are examining one initiative cohesive set of regulations and taxation which could legalize the EU online gambling companies to operate in the Spanish gambling market (having one of the Spanish licenses). The present setup of the country’s gambling legislation permits all the autonomous provinces to adopt their own regulations concerning land-based and internet-based casino betting – the recently mentioned legislation could centralize the regulations into a clear federal legislation.

National Gambling Commission (LAE) of Spain would hold the new legislation to realize the licensing of new internet casinos. At the moment the government and delegates seem to be awfully positive about the forthcoming discussions relating to a nationalized online gambling industry. The advantages of national legislation are enormous; the government will have the power to actually control the policies to protect underage and problem traditional and internet casino players.

All the regional and the national authorities have prioritized the land-based and online casino issue. Since the discussions and talks go on the authorities will focus the debates upon how to implement country’s regulations, how the regulations will meet the EU free-trade policy, and procedures which will offer maximum protections to the land-based and online players and bettors in Spain.

It seems that the integrity of the European Union is turning towards the online gambling industry regulation rather than keeping state-run monopolies partly, because of the pressure from the European Commission to meet the policies of the EU. Spain and other nations were all drawing a thin line between breaking the EU trade policies; though, a perfectly licensed and regulated gambling industry complies with EU expectations.