diff --git a/ChangeLog b/ChangeLog
index 808365b..d8d1a3f 100644
--- a/ChangeLog
+++ b/ChangeLog
@@ -1,8 +1,9 @@
-2015-06-05  Juergen Knoedlseder  <jurgen.knodlseder@irap.omp.eu>
+2015-06-09  Juergen Knoedlseder  <jurgen.knodlseder@irap.omp.eu>
 
         * Version 0.10.0 released
         =========================
 
+        Check existence of ROI in ctbin (#1476)
         Allocate optimizer in ctlike upon construction (#1471)
         Move cscripts into the ctools Python module (#1470)
 
diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS
index afa1965..bfecfa4 100644
--- a/NEWS
+++ b/NEWS
@@ -2,7 +2,7 @@ New Features and Important Changes in ctools 0.10.0
 
 Author(s) : Juergen Knoedlseder
 
-5 June 2015
+9 June 2015
 
 
 1. Introduction
@@ -40,7 +40,8 @@ None
 
 7. ctbin - CTA event binning
 ----------------------------
-None
+ctbin now verifies if an ROI has been set properly, and throws an exception in
+case that no ROI information could be found.
 
 
 8. ctlike - Maximum likelihood fitting
diff --git a/src/ctbin/ctbin.cpp b/src/ctbin/ctbin.cpp
index 74b285f..7070f2f 100644
--- a/src/ctbin/ctbin.cpp
+++ b/src/ctbin/ctbin.cpp
@@ -455,6 +455,15 @@ void ctbin::fill_cube(GCTAObservation* obs)
         // Get the RoI
         const GCTARoi& roi = events->roi();
 
+        // Check for RoI sanity
+        if (!roi.is_valid()) {
+            std::string msg = "No RoI information found in input observation "
+                              "\""+obs->name()+"\". Run ctselect to specify "
+                              "an RoI for this observation before running "
+                              "ctbin.";
+            throw GException::invalid_value(G_FILL_CUBE, msg);
+        }
+
         // Initialise binning statistics
         int num_outside_roi  = 0;
         int num_outside_map  = 0;