Romania

News & Analysis

Romania Lawmakers Backtrack On Ad Ban

Romanian lawmakers have scrapped plans for a full advertising ban, instead pushing ahead with a raft of less punitive restrictions.

News In Brief: January 3-January 6, 2023

Ukraine's gambling tax income is nearing pre-war levels, the country's regulator has said.

Romania Approves Winnings Tax Hike

The Romanian gambling industry faces a range of tough tax increases, including fees on player winnings, after the government approved an emergency ordinance and amendments to the country’s fiscal code.

News In Brief: July 4-July 8, 2022

A trailblazing former Nevada regulator gets top job at Las Vegas NFL team.

Romanian Industry Fights Government Plans To Supersize Winnings Tax

The Romanian gambling industry is scrambling to water down government plans to introduce a 40 percent winnings tax on players.

Research & Reports

Interactive Map: Gambling Advertising Across Europe

Advertising is one of the most hotly discussed topics in the European gambling industry. In this map, VIXIO GamblingCompliance shows the current situation regarding gambling advertising in all jurisdictions. The map highlights the differences among the countries that allow, partially prohibit or forbid gambling advertising.

EU Online Gambling Outlook 2020

Despite the fact that EU countries are generally some of the most mature markets when it comes to regulating online gambling, a few have yet to issue any licences. In Germany, the latest amendments to the gambling regulatory framework entered into force at the beginning of 2020, allowing for an unlimited number of online sports-betting licences to be issued straightaway.

Practical Guide: Gambling Advertising in Romania

This guide outlines the current legal framework on gambling advertising, aims to examine the impact of the National Audiovisual Council’s administrative decisions on the industry and provides a brief overview of potential new rules for gambling advertising.

Romania: 4th AMLD Implementation — Consultation / Draft Legislative Decree

The government of Romania is consulting on the draft law on preventing and combating money laundering and terrorism financing, which will transpose the 4th Anti-Money Laundering Directive (4th AMLD) into national law.

Practical Guide: Analysis of the 2019 Changes to Gambling Taxation and Their Potential Legal Challenges in Romania

This report provides a summary of the primary and secondary legislation implementing the changes to the Romanian gambling taxation starting from 2019 and a review of how this regulatory development could potentially be challenged in court.

Data & Forecasts

Market Monitor: European Online Gambling

This quarterly report contains a comprehensive overview of available data on the €25bn+ European online gambling sector. Jurisdictional market size figures and year-on-year growth rates are supplemented by an interactive dashboard and standardised, comparable data on betting-gaming splits and online penetration rates.

European Online Forecasting Dashboard

This interactive dashboard features our country-level market size forecasts for the €25bn+ regulated European online gambling sector through to 2026, with projections split between online betting, gaming and total online gambling.

Market Monitor: World Lottery Association Compendium

This report contains around 40,000 data points across over 150 lotteries and 85 countries, as collated annually by the World Lottery Association. The dataset displays total sales, GGR, digital sales & digital GGR by product category in horizontal time series and filterable table views.

Market Monitor: European Land-Based Gaming

This report aggregates available, sourced data on regulated land-based gaming markets across Europe, split between casinos and non-casino gaming venues. Market size and annual growth comparisons across 28 reporting European countries can also be visualised via an interactive dashboard.

Market Analysis: European Online Gambling

This in-depth report provides insight into the size, structure and growth of 32 European online gambling markets, containing analysis, updated as new information becomes available, sector themes and key market developments bringing stakeholders opportunities, challenges, tailwinds and headwinds.