Bill filed to take the experimental phase into permenancy
After a turbulent start to the year, Parisian gambling clubs could end 2025 on a high with the Senate adopting an amendment to the Finance Bill (PLF) tabled by Marie-Pierre de La Gontrie, Colombe Brossel, and Rémi Féraud, members of the Socialist, Ecological, and Republican group, aimed at making them permanent.
The senators said: “The gaming club experiment has proven its effectiveness by offering a legal and regulated alternative to clandestine gambling dens, while guaranteeing the transparency, traceability, and integrity of financial flows. Economically, gaming clubs have also generated approximately €120m in annual revenue, including €40m for the State and €10m for the City of Paris. They have created and maintained several hundred direct and indirect jobs, thus contributing to the vitality of the Parisian economy. Making gaming clubs permanent would therefore provide a clear and lasting framework for a model that has fully proven its worth from both a public order and economic regulation perspective.”
Politicians aim to make As reported by Journal des Casinos, Amélie de Montchalin, Minister for Public Accounts, added: “I believe it is in our interest to have well-known operators. We know that money laundering is also a risk, and maintaining this established framework is perhaps the best way to do so.”
The general rapporteur of the Senate Finance Committee requested the withdrawal of the amendment, wanting to postpone the examination of the permanent authorisation of gaming clubs until the next budget, in order to have a more comprehensive assessment of the situation. Gaming clubs, introduced by Law No. 2017-257 of February 28, 2017, concerning the status of Paris and metropolitan planning, underwent several experimental phases.
The first, lasting three years, was extended for two years until December 31, 2022, and then again until the end of 2024. In its 2025 Finance Bill, the government justified these extensions by citing the difficulty of assessing the experiment, noting that, ‘given the impact of the health crisis on the activity of these establishments during 2020 and 2021, evaluating the activity and tax revenue generated by these gaming clubs is not meaningful.’
The various political crises and the lack of legislative agreement for a 2025 budget before December 31, 2024, had led to the closure of clubs for three months, from January 1 to March 1.
The French casino industry association, Casinos de France, said: “The industry welcomes the Government’s favorable opinion on this amendment. This support confirms the relevance of the gaming club model, which meets the requirements of transparency, security, and economic attractiveness. It naturally hopes that this progress will be fully confirmed in the final version of the draft budget law and reaffirms its commitment to working alongside public authorities to ensure a legal, transparent, regulated gaming sector that fully serves the public interest.”
The final adoption of the amendment will depend on the Senate’s vote on the entire 2026 Finance Bill, before a second reading in the National Assembly, if it is approved by a majority in the upper house of the French Parliament.
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Bill filed to take the experimental phase into permenancy After a turbulent start to the year, Parisian gambling clubs could end 2025 on a high with the Senate adopting an amendment to the Finance Bill (PLF) tabled by Marie-Pierre de La Gontrie, Colombe Brossel, and Rémi Féraud, members of the Socialist, Ecological, and Republican group,…
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