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Sports Betting Class 1 Gaming License
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Romania Sports Betting Class 1 Gaming License
A Supervisory Committee within the ONJN is assessing the applications and granting the particular licenses/authorizations required by the law.
According to the gambling-specific legislation, betting – a traditional game – is a game of chance in which the participant must indicate the results of events to be held or which are randomly generated by an independent computer system.
Bets fall into three categories:
- fixed odds bets, in which the organizer is the one who establishes on the basis of its own criteria and informs the participants the odds multiplier odds if the variants played are declared winners, in accordance with the provisions of the respective game rules. The value of each win is fixed by regulation (fixed amount or multiple of bets) independently of the total bets (in case of bets organized by the authorization holder);
- mutual bets, where the prize is distributed to the participants declared winners in proportion to the number of winning variants held by each of them, the organizer being involved only in the process of collecting participation fees and distributing the amounts established as prizes, in accordance with the respective game regulations;
- counterparty bets organized within betting agencies, an activity that consists of matching bets between different players, respectively accepting a bet placed by a player only insofar as another player is identified who places a bet in the opposite direction to the one placed initially. The value of each win is determined by the players (in the case of bets brokered by the organizer).
Betting-type gambling is carried out on the basis of the class 1 gambling organization license for betting-type gambling and on the basis of the authorization to operate gambling-type gambling.
In order to request and obtain the gambling organization license and the gambling exploitation authorization, it is necessary to draft, prepare several documents specific to the field.
Taxes and share capital
Documentation for obtaining a gambling organization license
Documentation for obtaining the gambling operation authorization
The lawyers from Szilaghi Consulting can inform you about the steps and documents necessary in order to obtain the gambling organization license and the gambling operation authorization.
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Sports Betting România
Share Capital
| For organizers who operate lotto games | 2 000 000 RON |
| For organizers who operate mutual bets | 1 000 000 RON |
| For organizers who operate fixed odds bets | 1 000 000 RON |
| For organizers who operate casino games | 1 000 000 RON |
| For organizers who operate slot machines | 30 000 RON |
| For the organizers who operate the bingo games held in Game Rooms | 100 000 RON |
| For organizers who operate bingo gambling organized through television network systems | 1 000 000 RON |
| For organizers who operate fixed-rate online gambling | 1 000 000 RON |
| For organizers who operate bingo games organized through internet communication systems, fixed or mobile telephony systems | 500 000 RON |
| For organizers who operate online gambling | 1 000 000 RON |
| Organization fee for poker tournaments | 200 000 RON |
Licensing and authorization fees
I. Gambling organizer’s license fees (annual):
| Lottery games: | EUR 115 000 |
| Mutual betting: | EUR 45 000 |
| Fixed-rate betting: | EUR 25 000 |
| Counterpart betting: | EUR 25 000 |
| Games of chance characteristic to casinos: | EUR 95 000 |
| Games of chance characteristic to poker clubs: | EUR 15 000 |
| Slot machine-type games: | EUR 20 000 |
| Bingo games taking place in gambling halls: | EUR 10 000 |
| Bingo games of chance organized via television network systems: | EUR 70 000 |
| Remote games of chance, there are three categories of license as follow: | |
| 1st Class Licence: This is granted to operators organizing remote games of chance, who have direct contracts with players, and is calculated according to the organizer’s turnover. | |
| 2nd Class Licence: for legal persons involved in the field of traditional and remote games of chance, as well as conformity evaluation bodies. This is subject to a fee of EUR 6000/ year. | |
| 3rd Class Licence: for the State monopoly remote games provided for in Article 10(1)(h) of the Emergency Ordinance. | |
| Poker festivals | EUR 5 000 |
| Temporary casino-type games (valid three months) | EUR 23 750 |
| Temporary slot machine-type games (valid three months) | EUR 5 000 |
| Temporary bingo-type games in halls (valid three months) | EUR 2 500 |
| Tombola type of games – a traditional game | EUR 5 000 |
| Video lottery game – a traditional game | EUR 50 000 |
II. Gambling operator’s authorization fees (annual):
| Traditional lottery-type games: | EUR 180 000 |
| Mutual betting – traditional: 16 % of the organizer’s income from games of chance, as defined in Article 11 of this Emergency Ordinance, but not less than: | EUR 90 000 |
| Fixed-rate betting – traditional: 16 % of the organizer’s income from games of chance, as defined in Article 11 of this Emergency Ordinance, but not less than: | EUR 90 000 |
| Counterpart betting – traditional: 16 % of the organizer’s income from games of chance, as defined in Article 11 of this Emergency Ordinance, but not less than: | EUR 90 000 |
| Games of chance characteristic to casinos: | |
| for each table, in the city of Bucharest: | EUR 60 000 |
| for each table, in other locations than the city of Bucharest: | EUR 30 000 |
| Poker clubs: | |
| for each premise, in the city of Bucharest: | EUR 70 000 |
| for each premise, in locations other than the city of Bucharest: | EUR 30 000 |
| Each slot machine-type piece of gaming equipment: | |
| Slot machine Class A | EUR 2 600 |
| Electronic devices offering limited-risk winnings, Class B | EUR 1 500 |
| Bingo games taking place in gambling halls: | EUR 7 000 |
| for each hall, as well as 3 % of the nominal value of cards purchased from Imprimeria Naţională SA, the Romanian National Printing Company, which is paid in advance to the State Treasury; a payment order endorsed by the treasury is presented when the cards are collected | |
| Bingo games of chance organized via television network systems: 16 % of the organizer’s income, as defined in Article 11 of this Emergency Ordinance, but not less than EUR 115 000 | |
| 1st Class remote games of chance: 16 % of the organizer’s income from games of chance, as they are defined in Article 11 of this Emergency Ordinance but no less than EUR 100 000 | |
| 3rd Class remote games of chance: 16 % of the organizer’s income from games of chance, as they are defined in Article 11 of this Emergency Ordinance but no less than EUR 100 000 | |
| Poker festivals | EUR 20 000 |
| Temporary casino-type games (valid three months) | EUR 10 000 |
| Temporary Class A slot machine-type games (valid three months) | EUR 650 |
| Temporary bingo-type games in halls (valid three months) | EUR 1 750 |
| for each location, as well as 3 % of the nominal value of cards purchased from Imprimeria Naţională SA, which is paid in advance to the State Treasury; a payment order endorsed by the treasury is presented when the cards are collected. | |
| Tombola (raffle) type of games – traditional game: 16% of the organizer’s income from games of chance, as they are defined in Article 11 of this Emergency Ordinance. | |
Special fees:
A. For video lottery (VLT): 3 % applied to the licensed operator’s income from games of chance. The fee will be transferred in full to the State budget by the 25th day (inclusive) of the following month, in respect of the previous month. The collected fee will be allocated annually under the State Budget Law to the Ministry of Youth and Sport for supporting sports activities at the national level, as well as the financing of sports clubs, centers for children and juniors.
B. Access fee – entry ticket:
- for games of chance characteristic to casinos: RON 50
- for games of chance characteristic to poker clubs: RON 30
C. Vice fee for games of chance characteristic to slot machines provided ad art. 10(1) letter e) point (i) for video lottery (VLT): EUR 400/authorized station/year, to be paid by the organizer together with the license fee.
D. Administration fees for the remote gambling license application:
Documentation analysis fee: EUR 2.500 paid upon submission of the application for a remote gambling license, together with submission of the documents provided for in this Emergency Ordinance;
License fee: EUR 8.500/year/license.
- The standard application form;
- Description of the documents submitted for analysis;
- Company Registration Certificate;
- The good standing certificate issued by the Trade Register Office;
- Contract and/or power of attorney for the authorized representative in Romania;
- Police approval granted to all legal representatives/associates holding at least 5% of the shares/administrators;
- Criminal record certificate for the legal representatives/associates/administrators;
- Fiscal good standing certificate;
- Affidavit of the legal representative/authorized representative;
- Affidavit of the legal representative and of the authorized representative of the economic operator that it is not, directly or through intermediaries, related to the activities whose events are subject to bets for which the organization license is requested;
- Proof of the existence of the centralized computer system / its certification;
- Proof of ownership or use of intellectual property rights used by the gambling operator.
- The application form;
- A detailed description of the activity;
- The operating rules of each game;
- Documents certifying the right of ownership or use for the betting shops;
- The rules of the organization and conduct of business;
- Documents showing the right of use granted to the organizer by the owner of the computer program;
- Proof of the establishment of the guarantee fund;
- Affidavit from the organizer that the spaces correspond from the sanitary point of view and respect the norms of the P.S.I.
