ANJ 2024 annual report: Regulator to change course to curb excess gambling
With self-exclusions more than doubling since 2021, the ANJ plans to shift its three-year strategy towards reducing excess gambling.
Key points:
– The French gambling regulator, the ANJ, has released its 2024 activity report
– The regulator reported nine sanctions and 1,335 URL bans in 2024
– The ANJ plans to realign its three-year strategy towards reducing excess gambling
The French National Gambling Authority (ANJ) has released its 2024 activity report.
The report reflects on five years since the implementation of the nation’s most recent gaming regulation, with the ANJ writing in a press release: “Substantial progress has been made by operators in meeting their obligations in terms of preventing excessive gambling and combating money laundering; these efforts are beginning to be measured in the action plans examined by the ANJ.”
In total, the regulator imposed nine sanctions in 2024, with some being fined as much as €150,000 ($174,400). For excessive gambling, the ANJ Sanction Committee issued a public penalty in January 2025 of €800,000 was particularly high for the regulator, calling it “an important signal to the entire market.”
The regulator also blocked the URLs of 1,335 sites in 2024, conducted 231 administrative acts and activated new systems, such as the blocking of financial flows.
However, more individuals have signed up for self-exclusion in France, from 40,000 in 2021 to 85,000 in 2024. As such, as part of its goals for the 2024 – 2026 period, the ANJ hopes to pivot its plan towards excess gambling reduction. A symposium will take place at the Senate on 27 June to discuss the plan.
Good to know: The ANJ reviewed its action plan to tackle excess gambling in France in April
On the results, ANJ Chair Isabelle Falque-Pierrotin said: “Driven by a very dynamic market that digitalisation has fostered, gambling, which is not a product like any other, has nevertheless become a product of everyday consumption. The objective of reducing excessive gambling set by the ANJ must now be translated into an obligation of results that involves reducing the number of excessive gamblers and their contribution to the revenues of gambling operators.
“More broadly, the fight against gambling addiction requires going beyond sectoral considerations and considering the more global and societal dimension of the phenomenon, which concerns operators, public authorities, regulators, associations, educators, parents, etc.”
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