The French Autorité Nationale des Jeux (English: "National Gaming Authority"), usually referred to as ANJ, is an independent administrative authority, specifically designed to regulate online gambling in France.

Also, a special section of the site is reserved for published decisions of the board (approvals and rejections).

In June 2010, ANJ contacted unlicensed gambling operators that accepted French players and requested that they stop doing so.

That was the first step towards banning those sites that didn't get ANJ's approval and operated without licenses.

Then organisation focused on blocking access to these sites rather than attempting to prosecute operators based overseas.