Lithuania Gaming Supervisory Authority Gaming Control Authority of Lithuania

Overview

The Lithuanian Gaming Control Authority (Lošimų priežiūros tarnyba, LPT) is the gambling regulator of Lithuania, one of the three Baltic states. It operates under the Ministry of Finance and is based in the capital, Vilnius. It licenses and supervises nearly all gambling except the state lottery, including casinos, slot machine venues, bingo, sports betting, totalizators (pool betting, as in horse racing), and online gambling.

Lithuania legalized online gambling in 2016. At first it was an “offline first” structure in which only companies with land-based operations could go online, but since 2022 it has reformed the system and begun managing the digital market in earnest. In 2025 it introduced a higher minimum age, a tax increase, and advertising limits all at once, making it one of the fastest-tightening countries in Europe.

History

License types

Lithuania issues licenses by type of gambling. For online slots, an operator must hold both a slot machine license and a remote gambling license.

Capital requirement

To obtain a license, you must meet a minimum capital requirement depending on the business type. Casinos have the highest.

2025 regulatory tightening

In 2025, Lithuania made a major overhaul aimed at protecting players.

Advertising regulation

Since July 1, 2025, gambling advertising has been sharply restricted. Brand exposure is allowed only inside licensed venues and on official websites, and TV, radio, and internet ads are limited to 15 seconds and 3 times per hour. Sports sponsorship is still allowed, but gambling brands can’t be included in team or league names.

And from January 1, 2028, gambling advertising is scheduled to be banned entirely. A €4 million transition fund has also been set up for media outlets that will lose advertising revenue.

Taxes

The gambling tax is 22% of revenue (player losses), up 2 percentage points from 20% in January 2025. With the tax increase and the advertising ban arriving together, the industry has voiced concern that players may move to unlicensed sites.

Market size

Total gambling revenue in Lithuania in 2025 was about €274.1 million. Of that, online made up about €202.4 million, or 74%. It is a digitally driven market where online is far larger than land-based venues.

Blocking illegal sites

The gambling authority blacklists unlicensed online gambling sites and blocks internet access and payments to them. By the end of 2025, the number of blocked illegal domains had grown to nearly 2,000. Since 2025, it has also kept a separate whitelist of licensed remote gambling sites, so players can easily check whether a site is legal.

Player card

By January 2029, Lithuania plans to introduce a unified player card system. It lets players see their transactions in one place no matter which venue or site they gamble at, in order to stop one person from moving between places to get around limits. It points in a similar direction as Germany‘s central deposit limit system (LUGAS).

Baltic comparison

Impact on slot providers

Slot providers supplying games to Lithuanian operators must meet local certification and technical requirements. The market is small, but the industry is watching closely because measures such as the age-21 limit, behavior monitoring, and the unified card may spread to other European countries. Together with the Netherlands and Belgium, it can be seen as a leading example of a “tightening” market.