France's ANJ and CNIL published practical guidance on applying data-protection rules in the gambling sector, the report said. The guidance addresses operator obligations including data retention, marketing consent and biometric identity checks, and says it does not create new requirements.
Operators and their technology and payment partners receive guidance on handling player data under existing rules.
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France's ANJ said its algorithm identified 600,000 players with a high probability of excessive gambling, 8.7% of account-based players, who generated €1.2bn or 60% of total gross gaming revenue. The regulator reported that operators identified 89,000 excessive players in 2025, up from 31,000 in 2024, and called the identification effort insufficient.
The French gambling mediator received 1,856 requests in 2025, a 20% increase on 2024, according to the mediator's activity report published by the ANJ. Sports betting accounted for 91.5% of admissible requests, mostly concerning account management and bet disputes. The mediator deplored the doubling of withdrawals by Winamax, which withdrew from 126 cases.
France’s gambling market generated €14.1bn in gross gaming revenue in 2025, up 3% from the previous year, according to the ANJ. Online gambling produced about €2.617bn, while land-based casinos recorded €2.816bn; PMU’s exclusive-rights revenue fell 2.8% to roughly €1.651bn.
France’s ANJ assessed gambling operators’ action plans between November 2025 and March 2026, according to the report. It approved the plans of La Française des Jeux and PMU with recommendations, while all but one casino-sector plan were approved; the authority also called for further work to protect minors and identify problem gambling.
France's ANJ examined the excessive- and underage-gambling prevention plans of all licensed operators between November 2025 and March 2026, it said. The regulator approved the plans but issued prescriptions, saying further effort is needed to cut the number of excessive gamblers by 2027. It cited an OFDT estimate of 1,170,000 problem gamblers in 2024, including 360,000 at excessive levels.