Policy Impacts - Spain

🇪🇸 Spain: Loot Box Regulation

• June 2023: Invited to give a presentation on loot box regulation to the Responsible Gambling Advisory Council of the Directorate General for the Regulation of Gambling, Ministry of Consumer Affairs: Link.

🇪🇸 Spanish Ministry of Consumer Affairs’ Consultation on the Bill of Law that regulates the random reward mechanisms associated with interactive leisure software products

• July 2022: 5 of my papers on loot box harms, their proximity to gambling, and various approaches to regulation were separately cited (p 24, fn 7; p 26, fn 11; p 28, fn 18; p 36, fn 43; & p 37, fn 45).

• July 2022: Drafted an evidence submission containing empirical data and policy recommendations: Link.

🇪🇸 Spanish Ministry of Consumer Affairs’, General Secretariat for Consumer Affairs and Gambling’s, and Directorate General for the Regulation of Gambling’s Consultation on the future regulation of random reward mechanisms in video games (loot boxes)

• March 2021: My paper on conceptualising loot boxes as gambling was cited in the consultation paper (p 9, fn 30).

• March 2021: Drafted an evidence submission containing empirical data and policy recommendations: Link.