New employers’ association officially established in Spain

The three organizations affiliated to CEOE, which will represent the gaming sector under private management, have gathered to constitute the employers’ gaming association, comprised by the integration of the Spanish Businessmen Federation (COFAR), Spanish Casino Association (AECJ) and the Spanish Federation of Bingo Businessmen Organization (CEJ).

Some of the most important companies of the sector have also joined this initiative, such as Cirsa Gaming Corporation, Egasa XXI, Orenes Grupo and Recreativos Franco.

The employer’s gaming association, which is part of the Spanish Federation of Business Organizations, CEOE, arises as a tool to help overcome the hard situation that the sector is experimenting and the questions for the future due to the new environment created by Law 13/2011 of Gaming Regulation, which legalizes online gaming in much more favourable conditions.

The employer’s gaming association will develop a strategic plan for the whole sector, to create a proper regulatory frame for its regulation and adaptation to the current socioeconomic reality.

The new organization will ask the government and the Autonomous Communities the racionalization of the tax system and the elimination of multiple impositions, the possibility to carry out advertising and promotions, incentives to innovations and changes in the Tobacco law, among other measures to bring new life to the sector. It will also propose the creation of measures of effective coordination among Autonomous Communities to avoid the multiplicity of regulations.

For the employer’s gaming association, its petitions just suppose equality in the treatment with public gaming operators and online companies, and the equality with the legislation of other European countries.