Deposit limits & mandatory limit-setting

Great Britain (RTS 12): since 31 October 2025 operators must prompt customers to set a financial limit at registration or before the first deposit, and prompt them to review their account at least every six months. Under the standard as in force since 30 September 2026 the limit is entered in a free-text box, setting one is the default choice, declining needs a deliberate, confirmed action, and customers without a limit are prompted again at least once a year.

Great Britain (from 30 September 2026): every remote operator must offer gross deposit limits over fixed time frames, only those may be called 'deposit limits', and they must be shown with at least equal prominence to other limit types. Increases take effect only after a 24-hour cooling-off period and a confirming action; reductions apply immediately.

Germany (State Treaty on Gambling 2021, s. 6c): at registration every player must set a monthly deposit limit that counts across all licensed online operators; without one there is no play, and the limit may not exceed EUR 1,000 a month in principle. Operators must also let players set their own daily, weekly or monthly stake, deposit and loss limits at any time.

Germany's cross-operator limit is tracked by the regulator's central limit file (Limitdatei) in the LUGAS system, so EUR 100 deposited at one site leaves EUR 900 for every other licensed site that month; a separate activity file stops a player gambling with two operators at once.

Germany: operators may grant a higher limit only to players with no signs of problem gambling and sufficient financial capacity, up to EUR 10,000 a month, and up to EUR 30,000 for no more than 1% of an operator's active players. Increases take effect after seven days, reductions at once.

Sweden (Gambling Act, ch. 14 s. 7; Gambling Ordinance, ch. 11): before playing online a player must set deposit limits per day, week and month and say whether to limit log-in time. Increases apply no earlier than 72 hours later and, the regulator rules, not before the current period ends; the operator must contact a player who raises a limit or sets one above SEK 10,000 a month.

Netherlands (from 1 October 2024): a player can set a monthly deposit limit of up to EUR 350 (EUR 150 for young adults aged 18 to 23) on their own; a higher limit needs personal contact with the operator, and once net deposits pass EUR 700 a month (EUR 300 for young adults) the operator must check affordability and restrict the account if it cannot reach the player.

Netherlands (planned, announced 12 June 2026): a cross-operator deposit limit recorded in a central register run by the KSA, which a player could exceed only after an independent affordability test covering guardianship, registered payment arrears and income; the cabinet expects to consult on the bill in 2027.

Spain (Royal Decree 520/2026, in force 25 March 2027): a joint system adds up a player's deposits across all licensed operators against defaults of EUR 700 a day, EUR 1,750 a week and EUR 3,300 per four weeks. A player can ask to raise or remove the limits, effective after three working days and not within three months of the last increase; the system has run in a test phase since 21 October 2026.

Belgium (royal decrees of 25 October 2018 and 19 June 2022): online deposits are capped by default at EUR 200 a week per gambling site. A player who asks to lift the cap loses it entirely unless the National Bank's credit register lists them as a defaulter; the Gaming Commission gets an answer within 72 hours and repeats the check every month.

Key distinction: operator-level limits (Great Britain, Sweden, the Netherlands, Belgium) cap each account separately, so a player can open accounts at several sites, whereas cross-operator limits (Germany, Spain from 2027, the Netherlands as planned) cap the player's total across the whole licensed market.