On Wednesday, 13 November, a new “working project” will commence to establish federal protections, standards, and rights to combat gambling harms.
The project will involve input from five Argentine civic committees on “Addiction Prevention and Drug Trafficking Control, Social Action and Public Health, Communications and Information Technology, Criminal Legislation, and Families, Children, and Youth.”
These five committees are tasked with agreeing on the policies for a federal bill to be urgently voted on by the House of Representatives, aiming to supersede state laws on gambling.
Federal intervention is necessary as, in May, the executive government of Buenos Aires (BA) updated its Code of Contraventions to introduce tougher penalties on gambling operators, intended to restrict gambling to in..