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now 21 years. Te licences given for Casinos and Resort Casinos will be for locations considered national important zones and only one licensee of a casino has the right to open one casino. Te law also restricts the location of casino and slot machine halls and basically moves them outside of the cities and places them in dedicated tourism zones. Players will have to be registered.
Meanwhile certain categories under the old law, such as traditional bingos and electronic casinos, will no longer be available. Tere are currently a large number of electronic casinos and the government wants to tidy up the sector and gambling addiction problems.
Te new law introduces an ‘electronic casinos at distance’ category which will ensure all slot
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TYPE OF BUSINESS Electronic casinos
Electronic casinos Eletronic casinos
Betting/electronic casinos Betting Casino Betting
Electronic casinos Bingo TV Lottery
Electronic casinos Electronic casinos Electronic casinos
INCOME 2015/LEKE 2.33bn
1.92bn 2.10bn 1.54bn
903.8m 1.01bn 1.16bn
990.3m 307.5m 370.1m 242.6m 252.8m 120.7m 58.6m
13.33bn
halls are located at least 100 metres away from religious institutions and education facilities.
Casinos, sports cafes, slot halls and other gambling venues will have to present appropriate and certified distance measurements by the deadline to the AMLF as well as their plans to move their business if it falls within the prohibited 100m zone.
Initially the deadline was December 2016 but this has since been amended to December 2018 at the request of several deputies.
Te postponed deadline was signed by six deputies who say the immediate enforcement would have had a severe impact on the state budget. Te Minister of Finance said the loss
INCOME 2016/LEKE 2.47bn
2.10bn 2.06bn 1.94bn 1.67bn 1.42bn 1.16bn 1.06bn 334.7m 300.5m 250.5m 205.5m 135.7m 73.8m
15.22bn
would be around €18m whilst the six deputies calling for the changes said it would be more like €116m.
Te main points of law 155/2015 include: l
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Gambling is prohibited to those under the age of 21 years.
Gambling locations must be located at least 100 metres distance away from schools and religious institutions.
l Licences are issued for 10 year period. l
Tere will be Casino and Casino Resort licences located in areas of national importance. Casinos can be located only in
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