France: Minister of the Economy, Finance, and Industrial, Energy, and Digital Sovereignty adopted Decree No. 2026-60 relating to experimentation of games with monetisable digital objects including design requirement

On 4 February 2026, the Minister of the Economy, Finance, and Industrial, Energy, and Digital Sovereignty adopted the Decree No. 2026-60 on the experimentation of games with monetisable digital objects. The decree was issued pursuant to Articles 40 and 41 of Law No. 2024-449 of 21 May 2024 on securing and regulating the digital space, and it provides that it enters into force the day after publication. It requires the enterprise offering a game with monetisable digital objects, from the opening of the game account, to ask the player to set a play-time limit, and it prohibits any game action until the player has set that limit, which cannot be pre-set by the enterprise. It provides that the limit applies immediately to cumulative play time over a seven-day period. It requires the enterprise to inform the player at all times, in an easily accessible manner, of the time spent playing. It requires a warning and a continuously displayed counter when 75% of the player’s time has elapsed or at the latest 30 minutes before expiry, and it requires a further warning 10 minutes before expiry. It requires a continuously available self-exclusion function for 24 hours to 12 months, with immediate effect.