One Product — Many Markets: Framing the Problem
A modern gambling product — a game, an RNG module, a platform — rarely serves a single jurisdiction. A supplier simultaneously serving Georgian operators and international markets must pass the same product through compliance checks several times: in Georgia, within the framework of the authorisation certificate connected to the electronic control system; abroad, through reports of testing institutes recognised by regulators. This page does not describe any single jurisdiction's procedure — our certification series does that; here we discuss how to design a unified certification strategy so that multiple certificates form a coordinated portfolio rather than a mutually cancelling chaos.
The strategic point is simple: certification is not a one-off formality but a process accompanying the product's life cycle. Every change to a game, its mathematics or the platform simultaneously undermines the freshness of certificates on several markets. Portfolio planning is therefore change-management planning.
The Georgian Axis: the Authorisation Certificate and the Selected Person
In Georgia the legal axis of technical compliance is Article 36-1 of the Law on Organising Lotteries, Gambling and Profitable Games. Where a permit seeker or holder uses a system built with its own resources for its activity, the selected person must examine that system and issue an authorisation certificate in accordance with the standards and requirements established by a legal act of the Minister of Finance; the rules and conditions of issuance are likewise set by a legal act of the Minister of Finance. The certificate confirms the conformity of the game and of the essential products and services with those standards.
The institutional frame matters too: the electronic control system is deployed and operated by the selected person under a contract with the Revenue Service — for a term of no more than 15 years — and that person's server must be located in Georgia. The permit seeker or holder must pay fees for the first-time examination of the online gaming system and for the issuance of the corresponding authorisation certificate, for equipment and monitoring, for installation, for the operation of the control system (an operating fee) and for the supply of POS terminals. The types, amounts, periodicity and procedure of those fees are determined by a legal act of the Government of Georgia — the concrete figures are confirmed with the regulator. Moreover, the Government may impose additional requirements on organisers and suppliers in connection with the system, and non-fulfilment is treated as a violation of permit conditions.
The International Laboratory Layer
On foreign markets the testing standard is shaped by international testing laboratories — the GLI/BMM-type institutes known on the market, which run RNG verification, game-mathematics reports and platform integration testing. The Georgian law names no laboratories by name — it regulates the role (the selected person, the authorisation certificate) — so the value of an international laboratory report within the Georgian process is a practical question to be clarified with the regulator and the selected person.
The regulators' own frameworks provide orientation: Gibraltar's Gambling Division publishes a list of Approved Testing Facilities; the Kahnawake commission issues Casino Software Provider Authorizations — an application fee of $35,000 and $5,000 per key person, an annual fee of $20,000 and $3,000 per third-party operator on the list — with the authorisation appended to the single IGL; in Malta a B2B critical gaming supply licence is issued through two routes — Game Providers and Back Office, or Back Office only — and one licence covers games from Type 1 to Type 4, while a group licence is available where the parent holds more than 90 percent of the group's entities; on the Isle of Man the Software Supplier and Token/Blockchain-Based Software Supplier licences exist separately — with annual fees of £36,750 and £52,500 respectively, and an application fee of £5,250 for every type.