CODER IS IN THE DAY “ONLINE GAMBLING IN SPAIN.”

PRESS RELEASE. Madrid, March 9, 2009. Today is celebrated at the Intercontinental Hotel in Madrid the day Gambling Online in Australia - A regulatory update, a meeting organized by Legal Link, Gaming and Gambling Compliance Intelligence, which aims to inform the Spanish regulatory landscape in the area of online gaming. This conference brings together both government and industry in order to provide a strategic overview of the Spanish market, especially focusing on those operators who want to join him and the new opportunities that emerge.

In this context, Fernando Ors, Director of Business Development for Coder, participated in the session "Is Spain ready for a regulated market of online game?" With Sacha Michaud, Director of Betfair Iberia.

Fernando Ors opened his speech by providing data on trends in Internet consumption and behavior of Internet connection to electronic commerce. Focusing on the present one, revealed that the game and the stakes appear as the fourth area of activity with increased e-commerce operations in Spain and if the first count operations from UK to abroad. Worldwide, the online game currently represents 4.4% of the game and it is estimated that total in 2012 is 6.7%.

In particular, with regard to Spain, Fernando Ors gave a description of the first months of activity in Victoria, the brand under which it operates a joint venture between the elbows and William Hill, which alone is present in both regions legislation on sports betting: Madrid and the Basque Country. He stressed the good reception of this activity among Spanish consumers.

After reviewing the various tendencies in the regulation of online gambling in other countries, launched a proposal for the development of a remote Spanish regulations of the game based on four points: "best regulatory prohibition, appropriate tax regime (for operations and advertising) measures of self-publicity and protection measures to implement best practices. "

Within the conference program, but also emphasizes the participation of the Technical Secretariat of the Ministry of the Interior, Maria Angeles Gonzalez, representatives of the gaming areas of the governments of the Community of Madrid, Castilla y León, the Community Spain and Malta, the European Association of Casinos, the Spanish Association of Poker, the Remote Gambling Association, prominent businesses and other operators, among other topics, discuss poker online in Spain, the challenges of compliance and liberalization of gambling online in the Spanish market in a pan.

The CODER Group

Coder is a Spanish multinational, reference in the private sector play in Europe and Latin America, which manages more than 54,818 gaming terminals, 137 bingo halls, 106 rooms, sports betting, horse 3 and 6 casinos in Spain, Italy, Argentina, Brazil, Colombia, Mexico, Panama and Uruguay.

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