Lithuanian gambling supervisors have signed a Ukrainian Commission and Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) on gambling and lottery regulation to cooperate with gambling and lottery oversight.
Under the agreement, the two regulators will exchange information, share good practices and trade idea details on how to improve gambling, deepen their knowledge of the industry and ensure that relevant laws are enforced in each country.
Industry experts from each organization also work together to exchange legal information, market regulatory practices, topical issues surrounding the application of legal action, and business requirements.
In addition, the two regulators will hold joint seminars, lectures and other hands-on exchange events for professional staff from each organization.
“We have experience in areas where we already have considerable expertise and practice, such as prevention of gambling addiction, application of measures to entities that provide illegal remote gambling services, and technical requirements for gambling addiction. We are ready to share with our Ukrainian colleagues, “said Virginijus Daukšys, Director of Gambling Addiction Services in Lithuania.
“We are very pleased with this agreement and the fact that our new partner is a colleague of this lasting, unyielding and proud state agency. This cooperation is mutually beneficial and I We hope to support the needs of our Ukrainian colleagues as much as possible, depending on our abilities. “
The MoU was announced this week after the Ukrainian Gambling and Lottery Regulatory Commission issued a reminder to domestic gambling venues to ensure that it was operating in accordance with the wartime curfew. I did.
Some gambling facilities have begun to reopen throughout Ukraine, despite continued Russian invasion, and some operators have relocated to the western region, away from the major conflict areas in the eastern part of the country. did.
Such venues are allowed to open, but are obliged to operate in line with temporary measures implemented as a result of the transition to martial law during the war.
