Key Takeaways
- The amendments to French gambling laws which ARJEL President Charles Coppolani fought so hard to get included in the Digital Bill, have been rejected by politicians voting in the National Assembly.
- After two bills have failed in the space of just over two years, it is unlikely that another bill will be proposed before the next change of government.
The amendments to French gambling laws which ARJEL President Charles Coppolani fought so hard to get included in the Digital Bill have been rejected by politicians voting in the National Assembly.
The amendments would have allowed ARJEL to negotiate shared liquidity agreements with other EU and EEA member states on an individual basis.
The text demanded that such agreements could only be arranged with jurisdictions offering similar levels of regulatory protection as the French system and that there would be strict oversight.
