Spain's gambling regulator, the DGOJ, is introducing a single deposit limit that applies to a player across every licensed operator at once. The default ceilings are €700 a day, €1,750 a week and €3,300 over four weeks. The system is already being tested and becomes mandatory on 26 March 2027.
Until now, limits in Spain were set operator by operator, so a customer with five accounts effectively had five separate limits. Deposits are now counted per person: once the combined total across licensed sites reaches the ceiling, no operator may accept another deposit. The rollout is overseen by the consumer affairs ministry, which the DGOJ sits under. A Player Portal has opened alongside it.
How it works for the player
The standard ceilings hold unless the player changes them. Any change or cancellation of a limit takes effect only after three working days. A limit can be raised no more than once every three months. A player may lower, raise or switch off the overall limit, but only through a separate procedure with heightened risk warnings. Existing per-operator limits stay in force — the overall limit sits on top of them.
The portal is live, free to access and signs users in through the Spanish digital identity system Cl@ve. The DGOJ says it is open to all citizens, whether or not they hold a gambling account. Features include deposit, stake, winnings and losses data with history and aggregated statistics; configurable alerts on spending levels and play activity; management of overall limits and a check on whether operators have applied them; a list of gambling accounts tied to the user's identity; and downloadable electronic certificates of activity for full years.
What it means for operators
The DGOJ runs the system itself through its own tool, which checks compliance with the overall limits in real time. The regulator presents the centralised scheme as a gain for privacy: operators do not have to exchange player data with each other. For licensees, accepting a deposit will now depend both on a check on the regulator's side and on their own limit logic. The ministry estimates that about a third of all active online gambling participants in Spain hold accounts with more than one operator — the group most exposed to the limit, and a potentially sizeable share of deposit volume for brands competing for it.
The identity feature carries a compliance angle. An account at a licensed operator opened in someone else's name will now be visible to the person whose identity was used, on a state dashboard rather than only in the operator's KYC records.
Deposit limits and the player self-assessment tool were set out in the DGOJ's 2026–2030 safe gambling programme. In parallel, the regulator is centralising risk detection: a second public consultation closed on 22 October on a mandatory monthly test that would require every federally licensed operator to check accounts in the first seven days of the month against the previous 183 days of activity. The draft rests on Royal Decree 176/2023, and operators in the first consultation round in 2025 disputed the DGOJ's estimate of implementation costs at €130,000 per operator. With the overall limits already in testing, licensees have five months to integrate with the regulator's checks.
