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ANJ Proposes Raft of Measures


Tree years after strengthening regulation, the ANJ has proposed further measures including a ban on gambling advertising around matches.


France’s gambling market recorded its best ever annual turnover in 2022 with €12.9bn gross gaming revenue according to l’Autorité Nationale des Jeux.


FRANCE LEGISLATION


RUSSIA - Asia-invest Group is set to start the build of a new casino resort in Russia’s Primorsky gambling zone in September with a view to complete 23 months later. Phase One will include an eight-storey complex with 80 hotel rooms and a casino offering 30 gaming tables and 200 slots.


The news was confirmed by the Krai Development Corporation (KRPK) with construction and project management firm Asia-Invest Group planning to invest US$34m into its development. Initial plans in October 2021 were derailed due to the COVID pandemic but on now back on track with Asia- invest Group already granted its building permit.


Alexander Kim, director of Asia-Invest Group, said: “Currently, we are negotiating with contractors for earthworks, laying engineering networks on the site and developing interior design, and the project estimate documentation is also being prepared."


The second of 12 planned hotel and entertainment complexes in the Primorsky region opened back in 2020. This is one of the biggest tourist investment projects in the Russian Far East, with RUB3.5bn invested in the first stage and the total value of the project estimated at RUB8bn.


MALTA – Gaming Innovation Group has appointed former SBTech CEO, Richard Carter, as Platform and Sportsbook CEO ahead of its planned splitting of the company into two separate entities.


GiG initiated a strategic review earlier this year with the intention to split the company into two separate companies, in order to fully optimise growth opportunities and ensure each business can benefit from the strategic and financial flexibility of their distinctive business models. The split will form two businesses that the company anticipates will grow faster than in the current corporate structure.


POLAND – International Game Technology has upgraded Poland's national lottery operator Totalizator Sportowy's iLottery platform and deployed all of its components to the cloud. The go- live marks the first time that IGT has launched a customer's comprehensive iLottery platform to the cloud, with Totalizator Sportowy the first European lottery to have its end-to-end iLottery system on the cloud.


The line-up of products enables the lottery to oversee all areas of player engagement, anticipate new customer and technological trends, strategically adapt the operation to new opportunities, leverage convenient cashless options, and provide advanced responsible gaming features.


P18 WIRE / PULSE / INSIGHT / REPORTS


Despite enjoying a record year, French gambling regulator l’Autorité Nationale des Jeux (ANJ) has requested the Government grant it strengthened powers. Te ANJ said that with one in two French people now taking part in gambling, it has become in a few years a trivialised activity that concerns all ages and all categories. Tanks to digital solicitation techniques, the game is available in your pocket and almost at any time.


Tree years after the implementation of regulation that strengthened the obligations of gambling operators, the ANJ now considers it necessary to reduce in absolute terms the population of excessive gamblers, by acting in a diversified and vigorous way on supply and demand and this, as early as possible. To do this, the current regulatory system must be supplemented according to the French gambling regulator. ANJ has requested strengthened powers from the government to ban gambling advertising during the broadcast of matches five minutes before kick-off and up to five minutes after the final whistle.


ANJ wants to control and supervise the volumes and advertising methods chosen by gaming operators, remove game offers when they present a clear and excessive risk. It also wants the government to give the ANJ the ability to set a loss ceiling for the most fragile categories of players (18-25 years old) and set up an obligation


to permanently display a "activity counter" of the player (normative feedback and activity indicators such as net losses).


Elsewhere it wants to strengthen the effectiveness of the voluntary gambling ban system by reducing the duration of the ban to one year, tacitly renewable, without the possibility of going back on this prohibition period; extend to all gambling operators the obligation to pay 0.002 per cent of their annual bets for the financing of studies on gambling.


To combat illegal supply more effectively and to feed the reflection on the possible evolution of the existing framework, the ANJ has commissioned a quantitative and qualitative study on the state of illegal supply and consumption habits. Tis study, which will be published in September, will provide an estimate of the size of the market and will provide a better understanding of both illegal offers and player practices. It is on this basis that the ANJ will present an assessment of its activity of administrative blocking of illegal sites effective for a year as well as the lessons to be drawn in terms of regulatory options.


Te gambling market in France recorded its best ever turnover in 2022, with gross gaming revenue of €12.9bn, up 20 per cent on 2021.


Turkey Entain prepares to settle with £585m provision


Entain, the global sports betting, gaming, and interactive entertainment group, has taken a £585m provision in respect of its ongoing deferred prosecution agreement (DPA) negotiations with the Crown Prosecution Service (CPS).


Te company previously announced an investigation by HMRC into its legacy Turkish facing business, which it sold in 2017, and subsequently announced that it is in DPA negotiations with the CPS to resolve the ongoing HMRC investigation.


Te DPA negotiations have now progressed to the point where the company believes that it is likely to be able to agree a resolution of the HMRC investigation insofar as it


relates to the company and the group. While the full terms of a DPA are subject to judicial approval, the company has a sufficient degree of confidence to take a provision of £585m against a potential settlement, which would be paid over a four-year period in relation to alleged offences under Section 7 of the Bribery Act 2010. Te company currently anticipates judicial approval will be sought during Q4 2023.


Section 7 of the Bribery Act 2010 relates to the failure of a relevant commercial organisation to have adequate procedures in place designed to prevent persons associated with it from undertaking bribery for the benefit of the commercial organisation.


Romania


Novomatic is set to participate in the 15th edition of Entertainment Arena Expo from 5 to 7 September at Romexpo in Bucharest.


New on the Romanian market is the Primus Pro, a cost- effective cabinet described by the supplier as the best alternative replacement for outdated Coolfire I gaming machines.


Te most popular and successful gaming mix in Romania, Impera Line HD, launches with its new Edition 9. Tis version offers a selection of classic Novomatic games as well as new releases, and its user-friendly menu helps players easily identify their preferences.


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