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ONJN and ICI Bucharest agree to build Romania self-exclusion platform

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Romania’s National Gambling Office (ONJN) signed a cooperation protocol with ICI Bucharest on 9 February 2026 to develop a digital self-exclusion platform. ONJN said the system is part of a staged reform and would let players exclude themselves remotely using identity verification; the proposed legal changes would make exclusions binding on online and land-based operators.

Operators would need to comply with a unified self-exclusion system covering both online and land-based gambling.

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Romania’s ONJN rejects Polymarket request to suspend operating restriction

Romania’s ONJN rejected a new Polymarket request to suspend the restriction on its operations in the country, the regulator’s president, Vlad-Cristian Soare, said. Soare argued that the platform’s activity amounts to betting rather than trading and should fall under national gambling rules; the report says the request was rejected as unfounded, not on procedural grounds.

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