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Three weeks ago, it decided to ban the opening of new gambling halls until attrition takes the number of these businesses to half of its current amount. The government, through the Ministry of Energy Transition and Productive Sectors, will modify the gambling law to achieve that goal. It established a moratorium on new licenses until the ratio of 140 gambling halls per million inhabitants drops to 75.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n
The goal is to lower the current density of gaming facilities. In Spain, according to government data, the average is 75, which is why the Balearic Islands chose this as the acceptable figure.<\/p>\n
The government decreed its first moratorium between 2020 and 2022. This prohibited new facilities and included the suspension of new licenses. Then, last December, it approved a new moratorium to freeze new licenses for eighteen months. The objective was to be able to complete the replanning of the sector.<\/p>\n
With the new moratorium from a few weeks ago, the government established an indefinite moratorium. However, once the total number of gambling facilities drops below 75, it will begin to consider new licenses on a case-by-case basis.<\/strong><\/p>\nThere are around 150 gambling and betting halls in the Balearic Islands, as well as around 5,000 slot machines. Five years ago, the community had the third-highest number of gambling establishments in the country.<\/p>\n
At the time, there were 116 per one million inhabitants. However, the number didn\u2019t stop growing until the government implemented its new rules.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
A number of local governments in Spain continue to update their gambling regulations. The latest is the city of Palma de Mallorca, which will take a stricter stance on gambling facilities across the region. Palma’s New General Plan, which the government initially approved last year, will prevent the opening of any premises within 500 meters […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":64,"featured_media":216228,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[62,13592],"tags":[],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\n
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