Report SPORTS BETTING - PART 3
They offer 10,000 high quality odds per day over 500 events per day and covering eight sports.
Meanwhile they also manufacture their own slots – the MO1 and MO2 models which are equipped with 17 inch displays and can house various game boards.
Casa Pariurilor offers sports betting and lottery whilst Bet Café Arena is a new concept of betting shop com- bined as an entertainment centre offering betting and slots. This company is in partnership with Gtech. They have a total of 177 agencies in 72 localities. They offer sports betting, lotto, live betting and greyhound racing.
Public Bet has nearly 200 agencies throughout the country and offers sports betting, live betting, lotto and dog racing. Sky Bets Sports was founded in 2005 and today has 280 bookmaker agencies and is the largest sports betting operator franchise in Romania. They offer sports betting plus slots, electronic roulette and elec- tronic poker tables in many of their venues.
BaumBet offers sports betting throughout Romania and also manufacture casino games via their subsidiary Baum Games which was set up in 1993. Today with 500 employees the company develop slots and in 2008 developed multigames under the banner of Dracula’s Games and has to date seven versions.
StanleyBet Romania is a subsidiary of Stanley Leisure International which has licences in Belgium, Croatia, Cyprus, Denmark, Germany, Lithuania, Italy, UK and Romania. It has headquarters in Bucharest and it has around 140 agencies in Bucharest and a substantial number of other agencies across Romania.
Meanwhile Novomatic is planning to introduce a new terrestrial sports betting brand called Tip & Cash into the Romanian market which will bring new betting pos- sibilities into the country.
In 2013 The National Gambling Office (
onjn.gov.ro) was set up to manage and regulate the gambling activities in Romania. It is the first time the authorisation, supervi- sion and monitoring of gambling has been made by a single dedicated institution.
The legal framework in Romania is currently governed by the GEO77/2009. Last year there were a total of 418 slot hall operators, five casino operators, 26 sports bet- ting operators and 12 bingo operators.
The industry is regulated by two laws – 77/2009 which established the legal framework for the gambling sector and 870/2009 for the rules and regulations. This permits games of chance; casino games; bingo, keno, sports bet- ting, lotteries and raffles and contest games.
In relation to betting, the Law GEO 77/2009 states: l
Bookmakers and Lotto agencies can have between two and five slots.
l One of the first companies to
enter the market was Stanley Bet who partnered with a local company under the banner Stanley Fairbet. The company invested around $1.1m into its
venture in Romania and by the end of 2004 some 50 sports betting shops were set up.
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Operators must have a minimum registered capital and guarantee
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The annual licence fee for the organisation of the main offline gambling activities is:
- Lottery - €115,000 - Totalisator – €45,000 - Fixed betting – €25,500 - Betting exchange - €25,000 - Casino machines – €95,000 - Slot machines – €20,000 - Bingo games – €10,000
The annual fee for the operation of the main offline gambling activities is:
- Lottery - €180,000
- Totalisator, fixed betting and betting exchange – 16 percent of GGR (but not less than €90,000)
- Casino tables – €30,000 per table (Romania) and €60,000 per table (Bucharest)
- Slot machines – €2,600 per machines and €1,500 per AWP
- Bingo games – €7,000 plus three percent per room on value of cards.
ROMANIA SPORTS BETTING NO. OF BETTING SHOPS: 4,200 NON REMOTE OPERATORS: 26 SLOTS IN BETTING SHOPS: 9,000 ONLINE MARKET 2010 LICENSING: NATIONAL GAMBLING OFFICE
- Poker Clubs - €30,000 per location (Romania) and €70,000 (Bucharest)
When the Romanian government opened up the sports betting market in 2003 to foreign companies it levied taxes on all wagers in order to take a share of the profits.
One of the first companies to enter the market was Stanley Bet who partnered with a local company under the banner Stanley Fairbet. The company apparently invested around $1.1m into its venture in Romania and by the end of 2004 some 50 sports betting shops were set up in the country.
There are hundreds of shops operated today by around 20 companies licensed to provide betting services. Football is hugely popular followed by handball, rugby, basketball, tennis and gymnastics.
The National Lottery, Romanian Lottery, was founded in 1906 and is the sole operator of lottery throughout the country operating lottery and totalisator. The group has several games including Lotto 6/49, Lotto 5/40, Super Luck plus sweepstakes, instant lotteries and scratch cards and video lottery. Sweepstakes is a game of sports betting picking match results. The competition pro- gramme includes 13 matches and players predict the forecast. There are 220 lottery agencies in Romania
ONLINE Although online gaming was first regulated back in
2010, the requirements for obtaining a licence made it virtually impossible for online operators to actually licence themselves. One of the big issues of the former licensing regime for remote operators was the require- ment to submit a contract to the regulator which was concluded with a monitoring operator. However such monitoring operator did not even exist in Romania, since the respective licensing conditions were quite problem- atic and therefore no entity expressed an interest to obtain such a licence.
The secondary legislation detailing the licensing condi- tions for remote operators was finalised in August 2011
ROMANIAN GAMBLING MARKET DIVISION 2012-2013 ACTIVITY
Casinos 96 Sports Betting operators Bingo Halls
2012 14
12 412 56,252
TV Bingo operators -2 Slot machines operators Slot machines Fee per machine
€1,950 annual
2013 16
14 423 60,136 €1,800 annual
2014 7
26 12 1
418
70,000 (approx) €1,800 annual
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