From 1 May 2026, F2-licensed newspaper retailers offering mobile or off-premises betting must use the EPIS Excluded Persons Information System, extending the identity-verification regime established under Article 54/1 of the Act of 7 May 2024, which already applied to other licence classes from 1 May 2025. This is a durable, statute-based obligation rather than discretionary guidance, and it represents a scope-tightening compliance change for the F2 licence class specifically: a previously less-covered retail channel is now brought fully within the excluded-persons identity-verification framework that governs the rest of the licensed sector.
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Belgium · Question 08 of 11
Technical compliance: What must the platform meet?
Mixed · Probable · AI-generated · Back to full Belgium report →
Key section parameters
| Jurisdiction | Belgium (BE) |
|---|---|
| Regulator | Recorded in register |
| Favourability | Mixed |
| Confidence | Probable |
| Review status | AI-generated |
| Last collected | 18 Oct 2026 |
Summary answer
From 1 May 2026, F2-licensed newspaper retailers offering mobile or off-premises betting must use the EPIS Excluded Persons Information System, extending the identity-verification regime established under Article 54/1 of the Act of 7 May 2024, which already applied to other licence classes from 1 Ma…