Updated: May 9, 2012 (Initial publication: April 26, 2012)
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The Autorité française de régulation des jeux en ligne (ARJEL — French Online gambling regulatory authority) reminds gambling operators that they cannot provide players prepaid payment card.
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People playing online can pay by payment card or credit card. Licensed gambling operators created cards for prepaid usage, likely to be sold in advance to the players. On 18 April 2012, The Autorité française de régulation des jeux en ligne (ARJEL — French Online gambling regulatory authority) examined this practice. The regulator has relied on article 17 of the Act of May 12, 2010, law that organises the system of online games. It specifies that the player account cannot be supplied by the owner by an instrument of payment issued by a "payment service provider". The regulator noted that games operators are not payment service providers and concluded, in a restrictive interpretation, that this practice must be stopped immediately. The regulator confines itself in its decision to "remember this point" to the operators. This is sufficient because if they overlook, the Commission of the sanction of the Autorité française de régulation des jeux en ligne (ARJEL — French Online gambling regulatory authority) online, examined this practice will be there to raise the voice.
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On the Internet, if we type "prepaid card", the first site that opens is a site of games online. If you open a forum, the first message is that of a child who said: "the prepaid card, this is awesome!". The gambling regulator does not have function to organize or promote competition but to regulate a high risk area, especially for consumers, because they are young, because they are threatened with addictions, because they are threatened with insolvency, etc.
Prepaid cards are a payment instrument very dangerous, promoting consumption and can be purchased by anyone, whereas it is difficult to be a holder of a payment card, or credit. This is why the regulator has, in accordance with its mission, and by relying on a restrictive reading of the text, puts the stop to a practice being spread, namely the proneness of game operators that offers ways to ruin people. We should protect the player against himself, by increasing the difficulty to obtain a card on the part by payment service provider. We also observed that the regulator has no need to ban: it is sufficient "make it known ", "remember this point" to the operators. The sector is sufficiently self-observed for this applies prohibition. Everyone immediately knows that if the practice continues, the sanctions Committee will be seized.
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