The Dirección General de Ordenación del Juego (DGOJ) is Spain's national online gambling regulator, part of the Ministry of Consumer Affairs, licensing online operators under the 2011 Gambling Act, enforcing the 2020 advertising decree and the 2023 safer-gambling environments decree, maintaining the national self-exclusion register, certifying technical systems and acting against unlicensed operators. Land-based gambling is regulated by the autonomous regions.
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Spain's gambling regulator has reopened one of Europe's most contested advertising fights, proposing to bar celebrities and influencers from all gambling promotion as it rewrites the 2011 Gambling Act, two years after the courts struck down its last attempt.
Spain's gambling regulator, the DGOJ, has ordered a precautionary nationwide block on Polymarket and Kalshi and opened a sanctions procedure, treating the prediction platforms as unlicensed gambling rather than financial exchanges and aligning Spain with a widening European crackdown.