Government delays the reopening of bookies and other fortune games for some time

This, since the Kosovo government at the meeting held today, has extended the government's approval of the Kosovo Bill for Lottery.

The bill in question had 30 articles, and it explained in general how future games of fate will work.

According to the draft law in question, the exclusive right to host the game of fate was left only to Kosovo's lottery.

“In the third chapter of this Bill regulates the issues of the functioning of Lottaria, which determines that Lottery has judicial subjectivity and exclusiveity in organizing the game of fate, without the right to delegate or authorise of other subjects”, the Kosovo Government's commentary on the Bill for Lottery said.

“Lotaria is the only institution in the Republic of Kosovo, which has authorisation for organising the fate games in the Republic of Kosovo”, says in the first paragraph of Article 17.

Kosovo's Lottary Bill further explained the types of game fate that will be under the management of Kosovo Lotharia, which included numeric games, sports prognosis, and similar games.

“numeric games, Instant/expres Loteria, sports prognosis, bets in other numbers or events and similar games where the results are based on chance”, it said.

With the government's decision today, reopening the games of fate is expected to occur in a more distant future.

After voting in the government, the bill in question must go to the Assembly for approval, from which it must pass into two readings.

Otherwise, the Law prohibiting the games of fate had come into force on May 10th of last year.

This had happened after several criminal cases in several casinos in Kosovo, which had been the target of armed robbery, and where victims had been recorded.

By contrast, the 2020 Legal Programme has withdrawn the Customs and Actis Code Changes Bill; Tax and Customs Agency Bill; The Tax Administration and Procedures Bill; The Bill on Microfinance Institutions and non-bank Financial Institutions; The Bill for Tax in Personal Orders; and the Bill on Added Value Tax.

The same were carried on the 2021 program.