Spanish Blind call for regulation of online gaming

Published: 06 November, 2008

The Platform in Defence of the ONCE ticket (National Organisation for the Spanish Blind), which comprises 19 state organizations for people with disabilities and the social organisations representing more than 4 million people with disabilities in Spain, as well as the two main Spanish trade unions, today asked the Government to regulate the new electronic games.

"From the Platform we request the State to regulate the games over the Internet and the electronic media that support mobile phones where the games consist of sending SMS messages. We put this request because they are doing harm to all the gaming operators and the treasury and because we believe there are many children who use their mobile phones to participate in these games and nobody is doing anything", said Andrés Ramos, a member of the Platform. "The general agreement between ONCE and the government is not being fulfilled, because in that agreement it was planned that during 2008 there would be a commission to review this matter. We are nearing the end of the year and we have no news about that review". Following a meeting between the Minister, Mariano Fernández Bermejo, and the chairman of ONCE, Miguel Carballeda, the Ministry of Justice has undertaken to address the regulation of these games as a matter of urgency.

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