Spain’s online gambling operators will still be permitted to market their products, but the government intends to severely limit their capacity to do so going forward.

On Wednesday, Spain’s minority government clarified its intentions toward online gambling advertising, following last week’s 2019 budget deal with an opposition party that declared online gambling adverts would be treated “similar to that of tobacco products,” which are subject to a blanket prohibition.

In an address to legislators on Wednesday, Finance Minister María Jesús Montero announced that the government would release specifics on its “ambitious and useful” online gambling ad restrictions in the near future. But Montero (pictured) claimed that the government had no plans to impose an “absolute prohibition of publicity” like the kind recently imposed in Italy, noting that gambling was a legal activity regulated by the government.

That said, tobacco is also a legal activity regulated by the government, a fact that won’t necessarily reassure gambling operators. Spain prohibits tobacco advertising from appearing on all broadcast media, in domestic newspapers and magazines, outdoor signage, paid placement in TV or film, and all sponsorship of events, activities, individuals or organizations.