That being said we are working in stages

Some, few, argue many things but without giving many figures. That is, and in particular for sports betting Before its opening, the market was estimated at EUR 1 billion, of which 96 for illegal sites. Five months after the opening, updates on legal sites total $ 391 million. Annual projection, the activity is "online" with the originally estimated. Similarly, the number of accounts-players in France was estimated between 2 and 2.5 million prior to the opening. Today, we procedure 2.6 million active and provisional legal accounts. I have already said: it was indeed a failover of the application of the illegal offer towards the legal offer. As regards the sports betting, but also other activities horse paris and poker, Editor's note, the illegal offer became marginal. Concerning the fight against illegal websites, the Arjel sent 125 notices under section 61 of the Act of May 2010. Since then, 125 offending sites do more play since the France.

According to the law, the primary role of the Arjel is to monitor legal sites and to participate in the fight against illegal sites. Collaboration is quite positive with the services of the Ministry of the Interior, the Customs and the Prosecutor's Office. The issue was to pool and coordinate all means. We do this with efficiency in the interest of consumers. That being said, we are working in stages. The first step was to clean up the newly regulated market and we concentrated on paris sports, betting and poker sites. We will continue to monitor them, while launching a new phase: the fight against online casinos. Finally, I am sure of the effectiveness of the criminal proceedings to become marginal sites which would bypass strategies in place.

We were so far in a normal period of adjustments with the implementation of the Act. We have made various recommendations to be well respected. This period is now closed. We will seize the commission sanctions the Arjel of what appears to us be, beyond the necessary adjustments of the unjustified breaches. The Arjel College must also decide this Friday on the referral of the commission on three legal operators. This is a first.

I can't give names. Without going into detail, I can tell you that the problems raised within the procedure of opening accounts, but the moderators of games, imposed by the Act. It seems important to recall that the commission sanctions the Arjel work completely independently of the College, in strict compliance with the principle of the adversarial.

I shall confine myself to a few observations. The objective of the Act, may 2010, this is not the explosion of online gambling market, but the regulation of an activity which presents risks to public and social order. Another point of importance: licensed operators were aware of the new legal and fiscal framework at the time of their records. To do this, they were presented with business plans. I note also that some of them have exceeded their forecasts. I also fail to understand that a same operator, which provides money abroad with a rate of return to players (TRJ) of 96, to lose necessarily in France with a capped TRJ 85, even taking account of taxation-