ANJ reveals new senior leadership team
Newly empowered French regulator agrees governance rules and initial staff make-up
France’s new gambling regulator L’Autorité Nationale des Jeux (ANJ) has confirmed its first senior leadership team after making several key hires.
Olivier Tournut, former financial director for the French National Commission for Information Technology and Liberties (CNIL), has been appointed as the first secretary general of the ANJ.
Tournut spent more than eight years with CNIL, including a two-year tenure as head of human resources. In his new role, he will report directly to ANJ chairman Isabelle Falque-Pierrotin.
French civil servant and lecturer on public law Rémi Lataste has also been appointed as director-general of budgetary responsibility at the ANJ. He will be responsible for all acts relating to the recruitment, management and remuneration of the staff of the ANJ and management of its budget.
Former ARJEL HR director Jean Baptiste Menguy has been reinstated as the new HR director of ANJ, while Imman Toufik, former senior correspondent for the French Treasury department, has been named director of public affairs.
Under ANJ’s newly published governance regulations, all personnel must “exercise their functions with dignity, probity and integrity” and take care to prevent or immediately put an end to any conflict of interests which they may be subject to.
Directors are also barred from holding positions with other public or administrative agencies and sharing any privileged information with individuals outside the ANJ. Any person found sharing insider information faces up to two years in prison and a €1.5m fine.
One of the ANJ’s principle tasks in the immediate future will be the development of a new consumer protection framework and the creation of new measures to prevent financial crime.
ANJ’s regulatory mandate covers all online gambling previously regulated by ARJEL, as well as all games offered by state-owned operators Française des Jeux (FDJ) and PMU.
It will also have regulatory oversight of gambling activities taking place at 228 French racecourses and 202 casinos across France.