A row over "binjocs" - electronic bingo machines - in Catalonia, the northern Spanish province that includes Barcelona, has resulted in a legal decision with which the province’s AWP trade association, Europer, has pronounced itself "satisfied."
Cirsa Interactive Corporation and the Generalitat de Catalunya had appealed against the judgment declaring the game void. But the Supreme Court has ruled the appeals inadmissable.
The court ruled that the binjoc is not a lottery game and therefore cannot be operated exclusively under lottery monopoly rules in the province and therefore the 312 machines installed in 32 bingo halls and 62 rooms through Cirsa Interactive must be removed.
This ends a series of legal conflicts dating back to 2005 when the first binjocs were installed exclusively and Europer, an independent assocation of operating companies in Catalonia, demanded the right for the games to be operated by everyone and not just under a monopoly ruling.
