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Chapter IV: Provisions relating to sports betting

Article R333-5 of the French Sports Code

For the application of the provisions of the first paragraph of article L. 333-1-4, the organisers, referred to in article L. 331-5, of sporting events or competitions that may be used as a basis for betting may implement automated processing of personal data relating to the participants in these events or competitions. The purpose of this processing is to monitor the prohibition provided for in the first paragraph of article…

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Article R333-6 of the French Sports Code

The processing authorised by article R. 333-5 may concern categories of personal data relating to: 1° the identity of the person subject to the prohibition provided for in the first paragraph of article L. 333-1-4 (surname, given name, date and place of birth) ; 2° Their address (postal address and, where applicable, e-mail address); 3° Events or competitions for which they are banned from betting. The rights of access and…

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Article R333-6-1 of the French Sports Code

I. – For the application of the provisions of the first paragraph of Article L. 333-1-4, La Française des Jeux implements automated processing of personal data relating to bettors and bets placed on sports bets that it organises on the basis of these rights. The purpose of this processing is to monitor the betting ban requested by a sports event organiser pursuant to Article L. 333-1-4. The right to object…

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Article R333-7 of the French Sports Code

Pursuant to the provisions of IV of article 31 of the aforementioned Act of 6 January 1978, the organiser of a sporting event or competition responsible for the data processing defined in article R. 333-5 must send the Commission Nationale de l’Informatique et des Libertés, prior to its implementation, an undertaking that it complies with the description in articles R. 333-5 and R. 333-6.

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Article R333-8 of the French Sports Code

The organiser of the sporting event or competition must authorise one or more of his agents or representatives with the appropriate technical and legal skills to: 1° Process the data contained in the database referred to in article R. 333-5 ; 2° Transmit to the Autorité Nationale des Jeux and to La Française des Jeux the requests for reconciliation referred to in I and II of Article R. 333-11; 3°…

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Article R333-9 of the French Sports Code

The results transmitted by the Autorité nationale des jeux or by La Française des jeux pursuant to article R. 333-12 are kept by the organiser of the sporting event or competition for a period of six years from the date of receipt by the organiser.

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Article R333-10 of the French Sports Code

The Autorité nationale des jeux defines the nomenclature of competitions that may be used to organise sports betting online and in physical distribution networks, which must be used to submit the information mentioned in the application provided for in 2° of Article R. 333-8. The Autorité nationale des jeux and La Française des jeux define the technical procedures for transmitting and processing the request provided for in Article R. 333-11.

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Article R333-10-1 of the French Sports Code

The legal representative of La Française des Jeux authorises one or more employees with the appropriate technical and legal skills to: 1° Receive the reconciliation requests referred to in II of Article R. 333-11 ; 2° Process the data contained in the processing mentioned in article R. 333-5 ; 3° Transmit the information defined in article R. 333-12 in response. A copy of the authorisation decision is sent by any…

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Article R333-11 of the French Sports Code

I. – The National Gaming Authority shall carry out the checks requested by the organiser of the sporting event or competition, by matching the file transmitted by the latter with the processing of personal data relating to online sports betting operations that it has at its disposal pursuant toArticle 38 of Act no. 2010-476 of 12 May 2010 on the opening up to competition and the regulation of online gambling….

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Article R333-12 of the French Sports Code

When the computer matching operations reveal that one of the players in one or more of the events or competitions concerned has breached the prohibition set out in the first paragraph of Article L. 333-1-4, the Autorité nationale des jeux or La Française des jeux will forward the results of these matches to the agents or representatives mentioned in Article R. 333-8. These results include the following information 1° The…

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