Spain: DGOJ calls for loot boxes to be reclassified as gambling products Ted Menmuir, SBC News · November 20, 2020 at 7:22 am Mikel Arana, Director-General of Spain’s DGOJ, has confirmed that the regulatory agency has advised the government to introduce changes to the ‘Gaming Law’ in order to reclassify ‘loot boxes as games of chance’. The DGOJ’s leader urged Congress to support the initiative yesterday, stating that the government will launch a public consultation before the end of the year, aiming for new regulations to come into force by the second half of 2021. Furthermore, Arana supported the directive to Spain’s joint commission on the ‘Study of Addiction Behaviours’, whilst further advising the ‘Responsible Gaming Advisory Council’ to support its review in amending the current law to establish loot boxes as gambling components.
