In this issue of Casino Life and Business Magazine, lottery games and mutual bets, as regulated through Government Emergency Ordinance no. 77/2009 and Government Decision no. 870/2009

LOTERRY GAMES AND MUTUAL BETS

According to Government Emergency Ordinance no. 77/2009 and to Government Decision no. 870/2009, the category of lottery games includes the following types of games: • lottery games with purely random draws, without limitation to such: 5/40; 6/49; 3/90; 5/55; 5/45 + 1/20 (JOKER), noroc, loto bingo, Keno and the like; • lottery games with purely random number and/or symbols pre-draws, without limitation to such: ticket, imprinted ticket, stapled ticket, enveloped ticket, scrape ticket and the like; • lottery games passive lotteries, based on a purely random draw of tickets, numbers and/or identification data of tickets, without limitation to such: Lottery Cross, Gift Lottery; winter holidays lottery; Zodiac Lottery and the like; • video-lottery lottery type game through which one can obtain winning randomly, the result of participating in the game being revealed to the player through the video-lottery terminal, the skill or ability of the player not having any influence/relevance on obtaining the winning. The video-lottery game takes place through a unitary network of terminals within a closed-circuit and operating only when connected online to a central system at national level. The central system ensures the activation, permanent monitoring of terminals, centralization of data and automatic validation of the winnings granted to players. The validation and granting of the winnings does not imply the terminal used by the player.

According to Government Emergency Ordinance no. 77/2009, “Loteria Romana” S.A. (Romanian Lottery) is the only rightful organizer on Romanian territory entitled to organize and exploit gambles, lottery games and mutual bets, according to the definition given to such through legal framework of the GEO 77/2009. Emergency ordinance 77 on June 24th 2009 regarding the organization and exploitation of gambles, published in the Official Journal 439 on June 26th 2009, describing the issue and exploitation of licenses for developing activities of organizing gambles and he supervision of such activities. The National Company “Loteria Romana”, through its general shareholders meeting is able to decide the extension of the activity with new gambles, the categories of games listed above, coming to one another’s completion.

Game regulations and interior order regulations used by the National Company “Loteria Romana” S.A. for the gambles for which they benefit from licenses to organize gambles, respectively authorizations to exploit gambles, according to the law, are the ones approved by this company, according to the ‘aw, and endorsed by the commission. Endorsement by the commission, at the proposal of the National Company “Loteria Romana” S.A. is granted is maximum 45 days from submitting the complete documentation. The game regulations and interior order regulations shall be submitted to the commission by latest on December 15th for the following year.

The National Company “Loteria Romana” S.A. can use the computerized system for recording, storing, homologation and accounting reporting performed for organizing and exploitation of mutual bets, including the system of securing transmissions, the data transmission system (internet, radio, telephone, etc.) used within the company, as well as the one used for the location situated at the Ministry of Public Finances and for the organization and exploitation of the other gambles. The National Company “Loteria Romana” S.A. may exploit the gambles for which it holds exclusivity according to the provisions of emergency ordinance and based on a contract concluded with natural persons or legal entities in legal terms. As for mutual bets, 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 of distributing the sums established as prizes, according to the provisions of the respective game regulations. The category of lottery games includes the games in which there are used purely random results of events consisting in draws of numbers, letters, tickets or symbols, regardless of the procedures and features of the means used for performing the draws (urns, wheels, cups and other such means) which are not held in the presence of the players. This category includes: lotteries, including the instantaneous ones, and any gambles not held in the presence of the players and consisting in draws of numbers, letter, symbols, forms or tickets, through which one can obtain various winnings determined by events which are not held in the physical presence of the players.

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