Spain’s online gambling operators could face significant new restrictions on their ability to advertise, following a budget deal between the current minority government and a rival party.

Last Friday, Spanish media outlets reported that the minority PSOE government led by Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez had struck a deal with the Unidos Podemos party to ensure support for the government’s 2019 budget plan and thereby avoid a snap election call.

The new budget’s section on the regulation of online gambling and betting advertising calls for these ads to be treated “similar to that of tobacco products.” The document claims such measures are necessary because sports broadcasts are “flooded with ads that offer live betting,” which is “generating serious addiction problems.”

The budget’s gambling text also calls for increased responsible gambling messaging, providing players with more data to alert them to potential problem gambling behavior, while allocating “a percentage” of online operators’ licensing fees “to repair the negative effects produced by the game activity.”