After the 2024 amendments, online operators pay a monthly approval fee of EUR 10,000 (dinar equivalent), plus a duty on stakes-minus-payouts subject to a minimum monthly payment of EUR 10,000. The September 2024 Draft Law proposed doubling casino licence fees (proposed EUR 1m minimum), EUR 50 per slot machine and EUR 200 per betting shop. Land-based sports betting carries a minimum EUR 1,000 monthly fee per shop.
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Serbia · Question 04 of 11
Licence fees: What do the licences cost?
Mixed · Probable · Not reviewed · 3 post-review updates · Not reviewed · Back to full Serbia report →
Key section parameters
| Jurisdiction | Serbia (RS) |
|---|---|
| Regulator | Recorded in register |
| Favourability | Mixed |
| Confidence | Probable |
| Review status | Not reviewed · 3 post-review updates · Not reviewed |
| Last collected | 18 Oct 2026 |
Summary answer
After the 2024 amendments, online operators pay a monthly approval fee of EUR 10,000 (dinar equivalent), plus a duty on stakes-minus-payouts subject to a minimum monthly payment of EUR 10,000. The September 2024 Draft Law proposed doubling casino licence fees (proposed EUR 1m minimum), EUR 50 per sl…
Not reviewed Information added after the 12 Aug 2026 expert review — published for currency and labelled not reviewed.
The special-purpose deposit, or equivalent bank guarantee, required for organising special games of chance through electronic communication means increases from EUR 300,000 to EUR 500,000, with a compliance deadline of 1 January 2026. This is a direct capital-cost increase specifically targeting online operators and is the clearest cost signal to emerge from the November 2024 amending law. The figure and deadline are drawn from law-firm secondary commentary on the amending law rather than independently retrieved statutory text. Operators budgeting for entry or licence renewal around the turn of 2026 should factor in the higher deposit requirement alongside the technical-compliance costs associated with the mirror-server and live-surveillance-feed obligations landing on a similar timeline.
The 2024 amendment increased organiser fees across licence classes, with automat-club organisers now confirmed to pay a monthly fee of 15 percent on the difference between total stakes and total winnings, subject to a floor of the dinar equivalent of EUR 100 per registered machine per month. This fee-schedule tightening is Probable-confidence, T3-sourced press commentary rather than a T1 tax circular. Broader GGR-based tax figures reported elsewhere — 15 percent online and 10 percent land-based rates, plus a 20 percent withholding on player winnings above RSD 100,000 — remain unverified against primary sourcing this cycle and are flagged as an open gap rather than treated as settled fact. Layered on top of these fee increases, new technical-equipment and ICT-system certification bylaws add further compliance spend, meaning the total cost-to-operate trajectory for 2026 is rising on both the fee and the technical-compliance axes simultaneously.
Operator cost-to-operate in Serbia has risen materially this cycle. The amendment package effective from 6 January 2025 increased minimum capital requirements for betting and slot-machine operators to EUR 250,000 in share capital plus a EUR 300,000 bank deposit, a probable finding sourced from secondary commentary on the enabling act. This capital increase sits alongside a new recurring compliance cost: jackpot operators must secure an individual authorisation valid for one calendar year under the 2026 secondary-legislation cycle covering jackpot systems, top-up services and technical-equipment testing. No AML/CFT or player-protection cost signal was sourced this cycle, so the operator cost picture this cycle is concentrated specifically in capital adequacy and technical certification rather than distributed across the full compliance stack.