Players who want to play

online

will have to define certain parameters on how the game is going to be, according to the draft royal decree for safer gaming environments that will be approved by the Executive.

Thus, players must set the maximum time they are willing to play and the maximum amount they are determined to spend, according to EFE.

That is the proposal that is embodied in the latest draft of the royal decree of the General Directorate of Gaming, framed in the ministry of

Alberto Garzón

, whose managers are now analyzing the thirty allegations that they have finished receiving this month in the public hearing process .

The project will then be sent to the

European Commission

so that it can also make its contributions and return to the Council of State, with which, according to sources from the Directorate of Gaming, the royal decree could be approved at the end of this year or early 2022.

From that moment, and if article 12 of the royal decree remains, the people who participate in any of the "online" games included in the "Other games" license, that is, bingo, roulette, black jack, punto y banking and slot machines, they will have to do a previous configuration of the session.

The session will end when the set money runs out or when the time you want to play runs out.

"What happens first", specify the aforementioned sources, who recall, that the player can later start another.

What is intended is that the player does not lose control of his own decisions because of 'the desire to win';

Stop it, let your adrenaline go down and think again if you want to play again and have to define the limits of a new session.

In any case, the player will not be able to spend beyond the limits established by law, that is,

600 euros a day or 1,500 euros a week.

Those limits are used by those in charge of drafting the royal decree to distinguish between various types of "online" players, including "intensive" players: those who have exceeded 50% of the daily deposit limit, that is, 300 euros, or that of the weekly (750 euros) for three consecutive days or weeks, as the case may be.

Young people would become "intensive" if they have spent 25% of the limits set or, what is the same, 150 euros for two days in a row, or 375 euros for two weeks.

Experts consider that if these amounts are exceeded, a "disorderly game" can occur, something that only a very small percentage of active players can do at some point, around 15%.

More than 85% of active players (in total in Spain there are 1.5 million) do not reach these amounts, and that is why what this rule is about is to

intensify measures

so that their game does not end up leading to a problem gambling.

An

"intensive"

online

player

will not be able to pay for his sessions with a credit card.

This will no longer be a valid means of payment for this type of players, who

will have to pay by debit

so that they cannot get into debt or with a purse card.

In short, the measure means that nowhere can they spend more money than they have at that time, since those responsible for the Game have detected in recent years a growth in average spending per player: they spend more and more and there is also an

increase in the accounts of young people

, especially between the ages of 18 and 19.

Average annual spending per player was 312 euros in 2016 and 533 euros in 2020, a range that has progressively increased in four years.

For this reason, the draft of the royal decree establishes more prevention mechanisms for all players and especially for young people, whom operators will not be able to include in their privileged or VIP client programs, where more special attention is received.

Nor can they be offered gifts or compensation and they will receive messages, if they are "intensive", warning of this condition.

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