Although serious attempts are being made to form laws in Spain, which will allow foreign online casino operators to enter the Spanish Internet gambling market, it now seems that the wait to do so may last for a few years.

The president of a Spanish gaming manufacturing company, Eduardo Antoja, said “I don’t now see regulation in Spain in the next three years.”

Although one cannot be sure exactly how long the wait will be, it certainly does not seem like it will be in the very near future. The regulators working toward the goal of opening the industry to foreign operators have not yet been able to find a workable system which can be used for national regulation of online gambling.

Each Spanish province regulates online gambling on their own, and as yet, no national solution can be found to bring them all in line with each other and the European Union’s trade laws. The European Commission is having similar problems on a larger scale, in that each member state has chosen to follow their own set of laws, rather than fall in line with the European Union’s free market trade laws.

The online gambling operators that have been waiting in the wings, and had prepared themselves to move into the online Spanish gambling market when it became legal and regulated, might soon find that they had been somewhat over-confident, and that they will be waiting for quite some time before the issues are resolved.