Tag Archives: ONJN

Romania’s Gambling Office has made a key determination on cross-platform self-exclusion rule, opening a path for player compensation… ONJN, the National Gambling Office of Romania, has determined that licensed operators must uphold self-exclusion as a “single account principle.” The determination was published on Thursday, 13 March, to close a loophole that allowed self-excluded players to switch platforms and continue to …

Gheorghe-Gabriel Gheorghe, President of Romania’s National Office for Gambling (ONJN), has refused to attend the parliamentary hearings of the IT Committee. The fallout from Romania’s governance of gambling continues, as Gheorghe did not attend the IT Committee’s hearings on 4 March to explain the ONJN’s regulatory failings. Grabbing national headlines, Romanian gambling has been rocked by a damning audit of …

Ministers in Romania have been urged to back new regulations that will impose a limit on gambling expenditure to 10% of a player’s monthly income. The proposal headlines a package of draft measures proposed by the Save Romania Union (USR), which deems that “new accountability is needed to govern gambling” due to the damaging fallout of the National Office for …

The leadership of ONJN, the National Office for Gambling of Romania, has been summoned to Parliament to explain “serious failings and irregularities” brought to light by an audit conducted by the Court of Accounts (CCR). The demand has been filed by Minister Diana Stoica, the Deputy of the Romania Union Party (USR), who stated that ONJN’s leadership must explain its …

The governance of Romania’s gambling sector has come under scrutiny following revelations that the National Office for Gambling (ONJN) has failed in its supervision of licences and tax collection duties. Grabbing national headlines, last week, Romania’s Court of Accounts (CCR), the body responsible for auditing government agencies, reprimanded ONJN for its failure to audit gambling licences and authorisation fees. The …

Romania will implement a new strategy to tackle and minimise addiction harms across its administrative regions. On Friday, President Klaus Iohannis promulgated a decree co-authored by Romania’s Ministry of Health and Ministry of Justice to launch eight ‘regional centres for the treatment of addictions’. The project will see Romania adopt a new strategy to combat, minimise, and research addiction harms …

Land-based gambling restrictions ordered by Prime Minister Marcel Ciolacu must be re-examined by the Constitutional Court of Romania to be applied as a federal law. The judgment was announced by the Supreme Court of Cassation and Justice, tasked with evaluating new land-based gambling restrictions that will reform Romania’s Criminal Code. To impose changes to Romania’s Criminal Code, the Supreme Court …

Romania’s gambling sector faces further upheavals, following Parliament’s approval of an executive order by Prime Minister Marcel Ciolacu to enforce ‘Legea Păcănelelor’ (The Pannel Law).  Yesterday, PM Ciolacu declared a victory for Romania’s PSD-&-PNL coalition government, who secured approval to implement a ban on “gambling localities in towns with less than 15,000 registered inhabitants”.  The law was authorised by a …

The government of Romania has sparked controversy in the gambling industry by appointing Cristian-Gabriel Pascu as the Vice-President of the National Gambling Office (ONJN). The government gazette published yesterday disclosed that the Ministry of Finance had selected Pascu, a celebrity hairstylist and beauty salon owner, to serve as the VP of the ONJN. The announcement set off a media storm …

The government of Romania has made clear its intentions to stand by its plans to impose higher fees and operating demands on gambling businesses. On Tuesday, the Ministry of Finance published a draft of ‘emergency ordinances which aim to apply “stricter rules on regulating gambling activities”. As requested by the Ministry, the emergency ordinances have been forwarded to Parliament to …