ODDSGATE S.R.L. holds a Romanian Class II license from the National Gambling Office (ONJN). License no. 452 of 29 March 2024 covers management and hosting facilities on gambling platforms (management și facilități de găzduire pe platforma de jocuri) and took effect on 1 April 2024. It allows the company to run and host the platforms through which licensed Romanian operators offer games to players. Szilaghi Consulting supported the application.
Cluj-Napoca, 15 April 2024
The license
| Item | Detail |
|---|---|
| License holder | ODDSGATE S.R.L., Romania |
| Class | II (B2B supplier) |
| Activity | Management and hosting facilities on gambling platforms |
| License no. | 452/29.03.2024 |
| Effective from | 01.04.2024 |
| 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, distributors, platform managers and hosting providers, affiliates and payment processors.
Class II licenses are issued per activity. Platform management and hosting is a distinct activity from producing or distributing games: it covers the infrastructure and operation of the platform itself, where player accounts, game sessions and transaction records live.
For a platform business, the license is the condition for serving the Romanian regulated market. Romanian Class I operators may contract only Class II-licensed suppliers, so an unlicensed platform manager or host cannot run a Romanian operator’s platform.
What a platform host’s Class II file involves
Because the platform holds the data ONJN relies on to supervise operators, the technical part of the file carries more weight than for most suppliers:
- 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 platform and the hosting infrastructure: architecture and data flows, data-center locations, backup and disaster recovery, access control, logging and incident response;
- Certification of the platform by a laboratory recognized by ONJN;
- Information-security policies covering how player and transaction data are protected and how ONJN’s access to that data is ensured;
- 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 29 March 2024 took effect on 1 April 2024.
A Romanian company as license holder
ODDSGATE 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 ODDSGATE S.R.L., we:
- supported the preparation and filing of the ONJN application for the platform management and hosting 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: manage and host platforms for Romanian players only on behalf of operators holding a valid Romanian Class I license.
- Certification: keep the platform certified, and re-certify after significant technical changes.
- Changes: changes to shareholders, directors, the platform or the hosting infrastructure must be notified to ONJN.
Update, October 2026
Two changes since this license was issued matter most to platform managers and hosts:
- Reporting: since Law 141/2025, Class II licensees for management and hosting facilities on gambling platforms must 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 serve unlicensed operators targeting Romanian players or domains on the ONJN blacklist, on pain of revocation. For a host, that means checking every domain served against the blacklist. 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 platform providers, 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.
Running platforms for Romanian operators?
If you run or host gambling platforms and plan to serve 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.