As gambling grew in popularity, problem gambling rose. In 2004, the gambling authority initiated a voluntary gambling restriction programme where players can submit a request to prevent them from visiting gambling venues such as casinos or betting facilities. Between 2004 and 2009 the commission received 950 requests.
to anyone and could be found pretty much anywhere.
Te Law on Gambling (number IX-325), introduced in May 2001, became the first law to legalise and regulate gambling in the country, whilst the Gambling Commission was also set up under the Ministry of Finance to monitor the industry.
Te first gaming law was, in essence, a copy of the laws in other post-Soviet countries. Te first licence to operate gaming was issued in October 2001. At the beginning of 2002, the first legal casinos were opened in Vilnius and in Klaipeda.
Today, there are 18 casinos, 205 slot halls and 163 betting points in the country, whilst remote gambling was later regulated in 2016.
Te Gambling Control Authority is a department under the Ministry of Finance responsible for the gaming sectors, including the national lottery, slot halls, bingo halls, betting, totalisator and casinos.
Te authority is made up of four divisions –
Licensing and Permission Division; Control Division; Division of Legislation, Staff and General Affairs; and Gaming Device Type Approval and Register Division. Te authority has around 27 employees.
Tere are five types of licences issued by the authority. One company can be issued all types of licence:
1. Licence for table games and Category A machines. Category A is a machine where the maximum single win is not limited. Tese are located in the casinos.
2. Licence for a Category B machine. A Category B is a machine with limited winnings. Te maximum stake is €0.5 and the maximum win per game cannot exceed the stake by more than 200 times. Te duration of one game cannot be less than three seconds. Tese are found only in gaming halls.
3. Bingo licence. 4. Totalisator licence.
5. Betting licence.
As gambling grew in popularity, problem gambling rose. In 2004, the gambling authority initiated a voluntary gambling restriction programme where players can submit a request to prevent them from visiting gambling venues such as casinos or betting facilities. Between 2004 and 2009 the commission received 950 requests.
In 2010, the Losimu Strategine Grupe, in cooperation with the authorites, initiated a social project “I do not want to gamble” and the
nebenoriu-losti.lt website was created to offer support and assistance. In May 2017 an amendment was added to the gambling law to set up a register for ‘Persons Restricting their Right to Gamble’. Between May 2017 and January 2018, 3,100 people registered.
GAMBLING LEGISLATIVE CHANGES Tere are currently several changes to be
adopted into the the gambling market. Lithuanian MPs have been debating changes to the gaming act since 2017 and in May 2019 several amendments were approved by the
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