The Institution of the Selected Person
The technical control of the Georgian gambling business is built around one central institution. The third article of the law defines the selected person — the entity selected by the Revenue Service for the purpose of deploying and operating the electronic control system of the gambling business. It is precisely that person which issues the authorization certificate — the document confirming the compliance of a game and of certain essential products with the standards of the minister of finance. The operator named in the title performs this function — which means the local certification route begins precisely from this institution.
The legal foundation of the institution is a contract: on the basis of a contract concluded with the Revenue Service, the selected person is obliged to deploy the electronic control system and ensure its operation in accordance with the procedure established by the minister of finance. The contract is concluded for a term of no more than 15 years, and the rights and obligations of the parties are determined within it.
System Requirements and Control
The law also establishes the technical boundaries of the system: the server of the selected person must be placed on the territory of Georgia; the minister of finance establishes requirements for the electronic control system; and through the system are controlled the fulfillment of permit conditions and of the requirements of the legislation by the organizer of a gaming machine, of a systemically-electronically organized gambling and/or profitable game and by the organizer of a totalizator.
The supervisory layer is also defined: under the thirty-sixth article of the law, the Ministry of Finance of Georgia is obliged to impose control over the fulfillment of the requirements of every point of the law and of the rules of the games — the regulations. Thus the local route is two-sided: on the one hand, the certification and system of the selected person; on the other, the ministry's control over the rules.