This edition of Casino Life & Business Magazine will focus on the specific requirements that need to be met by the economic organizer requesting a license for organizing and gambling exploitation authorization.
1. For the online games, the roulette table games can be broadcast live, via the internet-type, hard cable or mobile telephone communication systems, from solely the locations in Romania that are authorized for games specific to casinos with at least 20 authorized tables, where two roulette tables at least will be online connected 24/7/365. It is not allowed to broadcast from studios that are specially equipped with live casino tables;
2. The bingo-type games that are organized via the internet, hard cable or mobile telephone communication systems can be broadcast live, by means of these systems, from only the locations that are authorized in Romania for bingo-type games taking place in gaming rooms or the bingo games organized via the televisión network systems. It is not allowed to broadcast from studios that are particularly equipped for this purpose;
3. For the games organized via the internet-type, hard cable or mobile telephone communication systems, the prize percentage from the total turnover of gamblers’ winnings will be 60% mínimum and 80% máximum, associated with every regular game, expect for the games awarding special prizes, when the mínimum percentage is complied with and for the online betting where the percentage of winnings from the gross earnings will be 60% mínimum, calculated for the authorization validity dates.
Documents required to obtain the gaming licensing:
1. The application form requesting the gaming licensing, as well as the list of the documents included in the file. The application form will be drafted and typewritten in the Romanian language, will be signed and stamped by the legal proxy of the business operator and will mention the physical address of the business operator’s main office, the contact data (telephone number, fax machine, email) and the profile of the activity that is the object of the application form. Since the computer-based applications are widely used, the form will be devised via this system;
2. The certifícate of good standing issued by the Trade Register, which will feature the following:
-the identification elements of the business operator (legal form, name, address of the registered office, the sole fiscal identification number); -the share capital, subscribed and paid; -the structure of the partnership or the associates, as case may be;-full name and address of the legal proxies; -the main activity object. It is mandatory to include the activity of ‘gambling and betting’, CAEN code 9200;-the secondary registered offices and their address;
3. The registration certifícate issued by the Trade Register office;
4. The approval of the pólice authorities granted to all the legal proxies of the business operator. Should the proxy is a business operator, the pólice approval will have to cover all its legal proxies;
5. The statutory declaration of the business operator’s legal proxy (if in a larger number, there should be a declaration from each individual) that will prove the following:
– the business operator has not been convicted in a final sentence with no legal rehabilitation; -the legal proxy is not in a conflict of interests, as stipulated by the law; – the legal proxy has appropriate training in the field of gaming organization and exploitation; – the legal proxy is knowledgeable about the current specific legislation;
6. The criminal record certificate or any document issued by the competent authorities whose jurisdiction covers the last known residence/registered office of the legal proxy/proxies, which will prove that there is no final court decision pronounced against, with no legal rehabilitation, in Romania or abroad, for a crime stipulated in the emergency ordinance or for any premeditated legal offense that receives a 2 (at least)-year imprisonment sentence;
7. The tax registration certifícate, issued by the fiscal body that is competent from a fiscal perspective of the business operator;
8. For a casino activity, there should be presented the proof of registration as a personal data operator, issued by the National Supervisory Authority for Personal Data Processing;
9. For the activity of fixed-odds betting and for online betting – the statutory declaration of the business operator’s legal proxy that will stipulate the fact that the operator does not have, directly or indirectly, any connection to events that are the object of betting for which there is requested the organization license and the exploitation authorization;
10. Should there are affiliates of a gambling organizer who are registered in a non-member EU state, who is requesting the gaming organization license and the exploitation authorization and who have and are still supplying such games ,on the request form date, to the players in Romania, then the organizer must file a statutory declaration on the part of the business operator’s legal proxy to specify that all and every efforts will be made towards the transfer of the database concerning the respective players to the prívate database of the gambling organizer who will be authorized in the territory of Romania in the shortest time possible.
