French gambling mediator urges operators to strengthen player safeguards

The Belgian Gaming Commission chair brought researchers, psychologists, therapists and practitioners together to discuss EPIS and potential improvements to player protection. The discussion considered automatically adding financially vulnerable people to EPIS and allowing players to choose the duration of voluntary exclusions; no decision is stated.

Belgium's Gaming Commission examined whether automatically adding financially vulnerable people to the EPIS player exclusion system would help prevent problem gambling situations early, the regulator said. The commission's chair brought researchers, psychologists, therapists and practitioners together with staff from its player protection department to discuss EPIS and how it could be improved, according to a regulator's notice. The discussion centred on protecting the most vulnerable people in society, the notice said. Participants also looked at the duration of voluntary self-exclusion measures and at letting players set that duration themselves.