Enforcement: How hard does the regulator enforce?

The Gaming Commission signed a cooperation agreement with DNS Belgium to improve detection of illegal gambling sites operating under '.be' domains, extending its enforcement reach against unlicensed distribution. This expansion in enforcement tooling occurs alongside a disclosed capacity constraint: the Commission's own opinion of 27 October 2025 states staffing at 32.8 of an 80-FTE target, prompting a risk-based supervisory approach that prioritises the largest operators by gross gaming yield. Smaller licensees may see less day-to-day supervisory attention in the near term, though the Duty of Care Charter and new IT-certification obligation apply across licence classes without an announced size-based carve-out. Belgium's enforcement theory for unlicensed operation rests on the statutory licensing stack established under the Gambling Act of 7 May 1999; the DNS cooperation agreement is a new secondary enforcement vector (domain-level blocking/detection) layered onto that primary statutory basis.