In full swing, the universe of online games has been constantly evolving since the 2000s. Until then, games were mainly regulated by the State. The final trigger for the change was the privatization of the American games in November 2019. The digital surge and the wave of privatizations increased the requirement to keep the course in the face of the explosion of a global market under permanent pressure.
In essence, the game oscillates between risk -taking and caution. In this uncertain balance, we brew money and chance according to bets and luck. We understand the need for a tutor line and safeguards. Even if the state manages the balance of losses and profits, the supervision of games and in particular Online gaming, called "regulation", needs to find a happy medium within this wheel of giant fortune.
Control agents go from 55 to 80
The designated regulators have a control mission. There are few agents in USA, when it would be more necessary: they will go from 55 to 80. This is what the new national games of the games will attack. Its goal: to impose new rules and control their application.
ARJEL (regulatory authority for online games) in 2010, and ANJ (National Games Authority) in 2020: two independent administrative authorities borne. Until then, ARJEL and the prefiguration of The ANJ evolved side by side, even if the ANJ had a quick vocation to take over, even to supplant the Arjel. Concretely, the game sector interests no less fromOne in two American people, and more and more young people. And it is also a point of stately conjunction of the State, mixing areas of health, budget, agriculture, sport and domestic policy, and their respective ministry.
In recent months, the question of metamorphosis was on fire, in preparation. COVVID19 Crisis obliges, it was late, from January to June 2020, as Eric Woeerth recalls during the hearing of the future Presidency of the ANJ of June 3 to the Finance Committee of the National Assembly . In the center, for regulation and regulator, the question: What place will the game take in a difficult global context? More than the next generation, it is necessary to ensure the transition between the two authorities.
ARJEL, an independent authority?
The Battle Horse the arjel was confined to online games. Its undeniable regulation role covered only 12 % of legal games. The Arjel experienced several difficulties, notably in 2014, a year which saw the number of approvals issued to operators fall. More recently, we are witnessing the fall of 90 % of turnover for sports betting operators, due to the global health crisis. The real challenge of the Arjel is to protect the players, but as a representative of interests with the National Assembly, the budget occupies a preponderant place which can decide on its future and the distribution of its missions.
ANJ: Extended powers?
The national authority guarantees the supervision of the practice of the game. It acts upstream, by approving, by fixing the limits of what is authorized, fighting against money laundering and addictions. The regulator himself being controlled, the Énarque Isabelle Falque-Pierre agreed, during his hearing on June 3, to account for parliamentarians regularly. Noting that this sector still has a state culture, the future president would now like more strategic regulation and announces the implementation of a dissuasive sanction policy. In cooperation with ministries, in dialogue with Game operators And the players, whose protection will remain at the heart of the action of the ANJ.
With multiple strings to her bow, Isabelle Falque-Pierre wants to plunge the ANJ at the heart of the strategic stadium of the global and financial issue. The project is to hold a palette with one hand: a single overhaul for a common front. Animate and balance the control mission (the compliance of operators), the question of freedoms (the protection of minors, the transfer of the gaming prohibition file).
Deploy its wings between the insurance of a legal and sustainable market and a model of competitive ethics. A scholarly recipe for balancingist that also has the government: wisdom or minimization? Simplify the complexity, a bridge is created.
What to expect ?
On October 4, 2019, the Prime Minister Édouard Philippe appointed Isabelle Falque-Pierre, prefigurator of the future ANJ. Then, Emmanuel Macron had the appointment of the senior civil servant examined by the Senate and the National Assembly. This was auditioned at the finance committee of the National Assembly and then of the Senate, on Wednesday, June 3 before being elected. Previously, president of the CNIL, this origin of Saône et Loire is used to taking up challenges of size and puts on its many assets and acquired.
The attributions of the ANJ will be extended by the former prerogatives of the Arjel for the games which were under the supervision of the ministries: Casino games, scratch games, horse races, and sport bets.
The bridges exist in this same branch, but the novelty lies in this mixture of genres for which we will have to assume and ensure the big gap. At the head of the ANJ, Isabelle Falque-Pierre succeeds Charles Coppolani, president of Arjel, to whom she paid tribute to her hearing.
