The Autorité Nationale des Jeux (ANJ) is France's gambling regulator, created in 2020 to succeed ARJEL with expanded powers, supervising licensed online sports betting, horse racing betting and poker operators, the state lottery and racing monopolies, and land-based casinos in cooperation with the interior ministry. It approves operators' annual promotional strategies and action plans on excessive gambling, restricts advertising volume and content, orders the blocking of unlicensed sites, and publishes market data and guidance.
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France's gambling regulator and its advertising self-regulator have renewed the 2023 agreement under which the ARPP vets operators' ads before release and consults the ANJ when in doubt. The new version adds Web3 games, influencer certification and a review of the 2022 ad charters, but its text has not been published.
The regulator has reminded operators that they must screen customers against asset-freezing measures, block designated individuals from opening accounts or betting, freeze funds immediately and report to the Minister for the Economy. The case behind the warning brought a €20,000 fine, a suspended two-month operating ban, and personal penalties for two executives.
The ANJ is looking at the front-of-shirt deal between the Ligue 1 club and a company that now runs its own event-contracts exchange, according to L'Equipe, the French sports daily. France blocked Polymarket in July, and the question this raises is whether a prediction-market operator can be a football sponsor in a country where it cannot take a bet.
France's National Assembly has written a mandatory youth loss limit into its professional-sport bill, obliging the government to cap what young adults can lose on betting. The crucial threshold, however, will be set later by decree.
A presidential decree has installed Pascal Chevremont at the head of France's gambling regulator, closing a contested confirmation that cleared the National Assembly by a single vote. He inherits a mandate framed around the fight against the illegal market and the protection of vulnerable players.
France's regulator has built a tool that lets operators measure whether their own player protection systems are actually working. The findings should worry the entire industry: excessive players may account for 60% of account-based gambling revenue.
France has activated the JONUM regime, a three-year trial that regulates games using monetisable digital objects such as blockchain-based items and non-fungible tokens, imposing gambling-style safeguards while prohibiting cash prizes and requiring declarations and transparency for regulatory monitoring.
France has fundamentally escalated its fight against sports corruption, passing a major new law that reclassifies match-fixing as a form of organised crime.