In conversation with the Romanian news channel Antena 3 at a recent event held at the Romanian Parliament organised by the Romanian online gambling association (AOJND), the EGBA’s Secretary General, Maarten Haijer, explained why a gambling self-exclusion register is a must in the country to promote responsible play.
Haijer said: “We need to have very targeted, specific regulation that really addresses the prevention of harm of individuals, rather than very horizontal, one-size-fits-all regulation, because that has proven to be not as successful as more targeted.
“Our advice would be to set up a self-exclusion register as quickly as possible because that allows people who don’t want to gamble to self-exclude.”
The EGBA has recommended that Romania’s gambling self-exclusion system s..