Government Ordinance (GO) 15/2022 amended OUG 77/2009, Romania’s gambling law, and replaced its annex of license fees, authorization fees and share-capital requirements. It was published in Monitorul Oficial no. 716 of 15 July 2022. Its lasting legacy is the 5% fee on gambling advertising contracts. Its fee tables, by contrast, were replaced by OUG 82/2023 in October 2023 and by Law 141/2025 in August 2025, so the amounts below are history, not a budget.
For the figures that apply today, use our Romania gambling license guide, which is updated every quarter.
1. A new fee on gambling advertising
GO 15/2022 created a promotion fee of 5% of the value of advertising contracts that promote gambling brands, platforms, apps or games through outdoor (city and roadside) advertising or television. The rules were:
- the contract, and any act changing its value, had to be notified to ONJN within 5 working days of signature;
- the fee was due to the state budget by the 25th of the month after the contract was signed, or, for periodic payments, on the last day of the month in which each installment fell due;
- if the advertising contract was signed by someone other than the licensed organizer, the advertising service provider owed the fee;
- sponsorship contracts requiring sports clubs or federations to promote the operator in stadiums and sports halls were excluded.
ANAF was to approve a declaration form by order, and contracts already running had to be declared and paid within 30 days of that order.
2. Remote casino games and raffles redefined
The ordinance defined remote casino-type games as games run entirely without physical presence, by the same organizer on the same platform, through at least one internet domain or a telephone or other electronic channel, and licensed and authorized by ONJN.
Raffles were redefined as draws of numbers, letters or symbols by any mechanical, electronic, digital or video device, with fixed prizes that do not depend on the number of tickets sold. Prizes had to be in kind and worth at least 50% of the total value of tickets issued, under rules approved in advance by the ONJN Supervisory Committee.
3. Payment of annual contributions
For the first license year, contributions became due within 10 days of approval of the application. For later years, they were due by 25 January. If a license ended early for any reason, the contribution for that year remained payable in full.
4. Notifying ONJN of changes
Licensees had to notify ONJN of significant changes to the data behind their license or authorization within 48 hours when filed online, or within 5 working days when filed by post or at the ONJN registry. An ONJN president’s order was to define what counts as significant.
5. Ceasing activity and cancellation
A license automatically lost validity once the organizer held no operating authorization. An organizer wanting to stop early had to notify ONJN and settle all fees.
The ONJN Supervisory Committee was empowered to cancel a license or authorization obtained with incorrect information that would have led to refusal. A new application could be filed only 5 years after the cancellation became final. Prizes paid to players in good faith were protected, while amounts collected by the organizer or Class 2 licensee were confiscated to the state budget.
6. Guarantees against non-payment
GO 15/2022 reset the guarantees by game type, for example €10,000 per casino table (capped at €175,000 per organizer), €33,000 per poker club in Bucharest and €23,000 elsewhere, and €100,000 for remote raffle games.
7. The 2022 annex of fees
The new annex set, among other items:
| Item (GO 15/2022) | Amount |
|---|---|
| Remote Class 1 license, by turnover | €15,600 to €312,000 a year |
| Remote Class 2 license (B2B suppliers) | €9,500 a year (up from €6,000) |
| Remote Class 1 authorization fee | 23% of revenue, minimum €120,000 |
| Remote license file analysis | €3,000 (up from €2,500) |
| License issuance | €9,500 (up from €8,500) |
| Annual fee per slot-machine or VLT post | €500 (up from €400) |
Minimum share capital stayed at RON 1,000,000 for remote gambling and RON 30,000 for slot machines. Euro amounts were converted to RON at the exchange rate of the first working day of October of the previous year.
GO 15/2022 also raised the annual Class A slot-machine authorization fee to €4,600, and OUG 82/2023 later took it to €5,300. How those increases applied to authorizations already running is now the subject of ONJN’s slot-machine fee reassessments.
What applies now (2026)
The 5% advertising contribution survived and still applies. Almost everything else in the GO 15/2022 annex has been replaced:
- OUG 82/2023 (in force October 2023, approved by Law 107/2024) replaced the annex, required operators to be Romanian companies or EU/EEA/Swiss entities with a Romanian permanent establishment, and moved to fixed guarantees from 2025. We analyze it in the new gaming fees in Romania after October 2023.
- Law 141/2025 raised the online authorization fee to 30% of gross gaming revenue with a €480,000 minimum from 1 August 2025.
The current online Class 1 cost is a €3,500 file-analysis fee and €10,500 issuance, then every year a flat €300,000 license fee, a €500,000 responsible-gambling contribution and the 30% authorization fee. Details are on the Class 1 (B2C) license page.
For B2B suppliers, the €9,500 fee of 2022 is now €20,000 a year plus a €15,000 contribution, or €45,500 in the first year including the €10,500 issuance fee. See the Class 2 (B2B) license page. The payment and filing dates that keep a license valid are set out in our compliance calendar.
