Armenia Online Gambling Overview
ONLINE GAMBLING: WINNING IN ARMENIA
This article has been submitted by Lilit Karapetyan, Aram Orbelyan, Anush Martirosyan and Kima Davoyan, from Concern Dialog, a full- service law firm headquartered in Yerevan. The company has been in operation since 1998 and works within various law and regulatory fields, including technology, telecommunications, gambling, finance, and banking.
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Te requirements concerning online gambling in Armenia are mainly regulated by the RA Law on Games of Chance, Internet Games of Chance and Casinos and the RA Law on Lottery.
INTERNET WINNING GAMES creating an opportunity for an independent player to participate in a game with winning (granting the right to participate in any way, except for the internet totalisator) directly (in a gambling hall) and/or via the internet or any other global system and through any coordinated network channels, except for data transmission services provided via terrestrial mobile network and/or through interactive short messages.
INTERNET TOTALISATOR creating an opportunity for an independent player to participate in a game directly (in a gambling hall) and/or via the internet or any other global system and through any coordinated network channels, except for data transmission services provided via terrestrial mobile network and/or through interactive short messages, where participants predict the possible outcome of gaming, sports or other event of social significance, and the winning is determined by fact of partial or full match with the prediction of the outcome.
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In the light of the above, sports betting as an internet totalisator, casino, and poker as internet winning games are available verticals of online gambling in Armenia. Moreover, as there is no defined list of online gambling verticals available in Armenia, any activity that meets the above-mentioned requirements will be possible to carry out in Armenia.
INTERNET WINNING GAMES Te requirements for the organisation of internet winning games in Armenia are mainly regulated by the RA Law on Games of Chance, Internet Games of Chance and Casino, and the Decision of the Government RA No. 1164-No. of 29 July 2004.
According to article 4 of the Law on Games of Chance, Internet Games of Chance and Casinos, internet winning games in Armenia can be operated by commercial organisations registered in the Republic of Armenia based on a relevant licence issued by the Ministry of Finance.
Internet gambling is considered to be organised in Armenia if the servers of the internet gambling organiser are located in the territory of the Republic of Armenia, have the relevant internet protocol (IP) address and information resources are in the ‘AM’ domain space.
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