title: Belgium — Technical compliance: What must the platform meet? | advennt.io canonical: https://advennt.io/jurisdictions/belgium/technical/ [Jurisdictions](https://advennt.io/jurisdictions/) [Belgium](https://advennt.io/jurisdictions/belgium/) Technical compliance Belgium · Question 08 of 11 # Technical compliance: What must the platform meet? Mixed · Probable · AI-generated · [Back to full Belgium report →](https://advennt.io/jurisdictions/belgium/) 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… ## Full section analysis 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.