France — Loi SREN — the verified record, live

France's loi visant à sécuriser et à réguler l'espace numérique — the loi SREN, enacted in May 2024 — is an omnibus statute that both adapts French law to the EU Digital Services Act and Digital Markets Act and adds distinctly national layers. It confirms ARCOM as France's Digital Services Coordinator, working alongside the CNIL and the DGCCRF within their respective competences. Its most-watched provisions strengthen enforcement of age verification for online pornography: ARCOM issues a binding technical standard for age assurance and can order blocking and delisting of non-compliant sites, powers that have already produced high-profile confrontations with major adult platforms and related litigation, including questions about their application to services established elsewhere in the EU. The law also created an anti-scam browser-level warning filter, penalties for non-consensual deepfakes, a framework for cloud market fairness — limiting excessive data transfer fees and locking practices — and an experimental regime for games with monetisable digital objects (JONUM). It is a dense, actively litigated text worth tracking clause by clause.

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Who enforces the loi SREN?

Several authorities share it. ARCOM acts as France's Digital Services Coordinator and enforces the age verification regime for pornographic services, with blocking and delisting powers. The CNIL oversees data protection aspects and aspects of the age assurance standard, the DGCCRF handles consumer-facing and cloud market provisions, and the courts and prosecutors deal with the new criminal offences the law created.

What does the SREN law require for adult content sites?

Pornographic services must implement age verification meeting a technical standard set by ARCOM, designed with privacy safeguards such as double anonymity. ARCOM can give formal notice to non-compliant sites and order internet service providers and search engines to block and delist them. Application to platforms established in other EU Member States has been contested before the courts, including at EU level.

How does the SREN law interact with the EU Digital Services Act?

SREN is France's DSA adaptation law: it designates ARCOM as Digital Services Coordinator, organises cooperation between ARCOM, the CNIL and the DGCCRF, and sets national sanctions within DSA limits. Some of its purely national additions, particularly those touching content and services regulated at EU level, have prompted compatibility questions with the DSA's country-of-origin and full harmonisation principles.

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