Spain’s Dirección General de Ordenación del Juego (DGOJ) has extended the second public consultation on its player risk detection rules by four calendar days. Operators and other interested parties now have until 23:59 on 26 October 2026 to comment on the draft DGOJ risk detection mechanism, which sets common criteria for flagging at-risk players.
The regulator announced the change on 16 October in an extension agreement. The original deadline, set by an agreement dated 9 October, was 22 October.
The extension
According to the DGOJ notice, the extra days give all parties more time to study the published documents and assess the project. The extension applies to every participant on equal terms. The object of the consultation and its other conditions stay the same.
Submissions go by email to the DGOJ’s Subdirección General de Regulación del Juego at dgoj.sgregulacion@ordenacionjuego.gob.es. The subject line must read “Segundo trámite de participación pública. Mecanismo de detección de comportamientos de riesgo”.
What the DGOJ risk detection mechanism covers
The resolution implements Royal Decree 176/2023 of 14 March on safer gambling environments. Article 24.1 already requires licensed operators to run their own protocols for spotting risky play based on objective indicators. Article 24.3 lets the regulator fix the specific detection mechanisms by resolution, and the decree’s third final provision gave the DGOJ two years to develop a mechanism that all operators must use.
When it opened the first public information round on 28 August 2025, the DGOJ said the mechanism would set mandatory criteria and thresholds so that a player is categorised the same way whichever licensed operator they use. That round closed on 25 September 2025.
Changes in the second draft
The DGOJ opened the second participation round on 13 October with five documents: the agreement, an explanatory note, the revised draft resolution, its supporting report and a data protection impact assessment.
The revisions follow report 015/2026 from Spain’s data protection agency (AEPD), issued on 15 June 2026, according to Sector del Juego. The new text defines more precisely which player data can be used and bars operators from using the data or the resulting risk categories for commercial or advertising purposes. Players also gain a right to ask for a review of the data, the calculated variables and the measures applied to them, and to complain to the DGOJ.
The agreement opening the round was signed by Mikel Arana, Director General of the DGOJ. The regulator said the second consultation covers the changes only, without altering the purpose or the main elements of the mechanism.
The rules sit alongside other player protection measures in a market that generated €405m in online GGR in Q3 2025. Earlier coverage of the regulator is on our DGOJ page.
Next steps
Comments close at 23:59 on 26 October 2026. The DGOJ will then review the submissions before adopting the final resolution, for which it has not published a date.
Source: Dirección General de Ordenación del Juego
