Spanish online gambling trade association Jdigital has confirmed that its appeal against the gambling amendments of the ‘Royal Decree on Advertising’ has been accepted by Spain’s Supreme Court.

Representing the interest of Spain’s licensed online gambling incumbents, Jdigital takes its existing dispute with the Ministry of Consumer Affairs to Spain’s highest-ranking law court.

The trade association maintains that the decree will impose disproportionate blanket measures which will leave ‘gambling consumers defenceless and unprotected’, should advertising restrictions be federally enforced across Spain.

Jdigital reiterates its previous market warning that advertising of licensed online gambling operators has been the only measure provided by existing gambling laws to protect the regulated market against unlicensed (black market) threats.