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 e110af9..7070f2f 100644
--- a/src/ctbin/ctbin.cpp
+++ b/src/ctbin/ctbin.cpp
@@ -458,9 +458,9 @@ void ctbin::fill_cube(GCTAObservation* obs)
         // Check for RoI sanity
         if (!roi.is_valid()) {
             std::string msg = "No RoI information found in input observation "
-                                          "\""+obs->name()+"\". Consider running ctselect "
-                                          "to set the RoI information properly. This is required "
-                                          "to proceed with ctbin.";
+                              "\""+obs->name()+"\". Run ctselect to specify "
+                              "an RoI for this observation before running "
+                              "ctbin.";
             throw GException::invalid_value(G_FILL_CUBE, msg);
         }