Meridian Interactive S.R.L. holds a Romanian Class II license from the National Gambling Office (ONJN). License no. 75 of 26 January 2024 covers the distribution of specialized gambling software (distribuție de software specializat în domeniul jocurilor de noroc) and took effect on 1 February 2024. It allows the company to supply game content to operators licensed in Romania. Szilaghi Consulting supported the application.
Cluj-Napoca, 6 February 2024
The license
| Item | Detail |
|---|---|
| License holder | Meridian Interactive S.R.L., Romania |
| Class | II (B2B supplier) |
| Activity | Distribution of specialized gambling software |
| License no. | 75/26.01.2024 |
| Effective from | 01.02.2024 |
| Validity | 10 years, subject to annual fees |
ONJN’s Class II license is the supplier license under OUG 77/2009. Any business that provides gambling-related products or services to a Romanian Class I operator needs one: studios, platforms, aggregators, hosting providers, affiliates and payment processors.
Class II licenses are issued per activity. Production of gambling software and distribution of gambling software are separate activities, each with its own license and fees. A distribution license fits a business that takes content from game providers and delivers it to licensed operators, without developing the games itself.
For a distributor, the license is the condition for doing business in Romania at all. Romanian Class I operators may contract only Class II-licensed suppliers, so an unlicensed distributor cannot be integrated by any Romanian operator.
What a distributor’s Class II file involves
A distribution file looks lighter than a studio’s, because the company is not developing the games. In practice, ONJN still examines the company and the technology through which the content reaches Romanian players:
- Corporate and fit-and-proper documents for the company, its directors and every significant shareholder, with criminal-record certificates, and disclosure of the ownership chain up to the ultimate beneficial owners;
- Financial evidence, including paid-up capital and financial statements, or a forecast for a new company;
- Technical documentation for the distribution platform: architecture and data flows, hosting, backup and disaster recovery, access control and incident response;
- Certification of the platform by a laboratory recognized by ONJN, and evidence that the games distributed are certified for the Romanian market;
- AML/CFT and responsible-gambling policies under Law 129/2019.
Once ONJN approves the file, the first-year license fee must be paid by the 25th of the following month. The license then takes effect on the first day of the month after payment, which is why a license approved on 26 January 2024 took effect on 1 February 2024.
A Romanian company as license holder
Meridian Interactive S.R.L. is a Romanian company, so it holds the license directly and deals with ONJN itself. A foreign supplier has two routes: a company established in the EU or EEA can hold the license in its own name through an authorized representative in Romania, while a supplier from outside the EU or EEA applies through a Romanian company (SRL). See setting up a Romanian company for a Class II license.
What Szilaghi Consulting did
For Meridian Interactive S.R.L., we:
- supported the preparation and filing of the ONJN application for the distribution activity;
- coordinated the corporate, financial and technical documents in the file;
- handled the correspondence with ONJN through to the issuance of the license.
What the license holder must do now
Getting the license is the start of the obligations, not the end:
- Annual payments: under the fee annex introduced by OUG 82/2023 in October 2023, the €20,000 license fee and the €15,000 responsible-gambling contribution fall due every year, in advance. Missing them puts the license at risk.
- Who you may serve: supply game content for Romanian players only to operators holding a valid Romanian Class I license.
- Certification: keep the platform and every game distributed certified for the Romanian market.
- Changes: changes to shareholders, directors, the platform or the content distributed must be notified to ONJN.
Update, October 2026
Two changes since this license was issued matter most to distributors:
- Reporting: since Law 141/2025, Class II licensees for gambling software must geolocate players independently, report to ONJN on request the countries and operators through which players reach their system, and file a monthly report by the 10th on players blocked because an operator without a Class I license gave access from Romania. See Class II reporting obligations under Law 141/2025.
- Unlicensed operators: a Class II holder may not supply unlicensed operators targeting Romanian players or domains on the ONJN blacklist, on pain of revocation. See the ban on Class II suppliers serving unlicensed sites.
The fees set by OUG 82/2023 are unchanged. For what an existing supplier needs to keep in order, see how a Romanian Class II supplier stays operational, compliant and commercially viable.
About Szilaghi Consulting
Szilaghi Consulting, a brand of IGAMING S.R.L., has advised on gambling licensing and compliance since 2004. The firm assists suppliers and operators with ONJN applications, corporate services, local representation and ongoing compliance. Our Romania Class II (B2B) license guide sets out the current dossier checklist and fees.
Distributing games to Romanian operators?
If you run an aggregator, platform or studio and plan to supply Romanian operators, we can confirm which Class II activities you need, the right corporate structure and the representation arrangements. Contact us for a pre-screening.