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For several years, casinos, bingo halls and amusement arcades have been competing with great difficulty against the online betting companies that are proliferating due to the lack of control in most countries and independent communities. In the Basque Country they are not regulated, resulting in a legal vacuum that the Basque Government wants to fill, and it has decreed that it will intervene in the matter “with immediate effect”.
It has given its assurance to the Director of Gaming and Entertainment, Sonia Fernández, who stated that the supply of games via the Internet “is beginning to rob the traditional operators of their share of the market”. Proof of this is the 60,000 Basques who say they have placed a bet in the last month, according to a survey contained in the Libro Blanco del Juego (the White Book on Gaming), published by the Basque Government.
It is calculated that takings from online gaming in the Basque Country in 2006, the latest figures available, amounted to €20 million. The growth forecast for 2008 was in excess of 50%. But the financial damage is not the worse consequence of the growth in digital betting. The Internet, where the limits are invisible, has opened the door to games of chance to minors, something totally prohibited, and has ended up hooking thousands of players, caught by what is on offer 24 hours a day with only the click of the mouse. Regulating ‘on-line’ betting, indicates the Basque Government “is the only way to ensure that consumers can enjoy all the expected guarantees”. It is astonishing that, despite all the threats, the sector is continuing to withstand the advance, in view of the data that has been made public.
