The Brazilian gambling regulator, the Secretariat of Prizes and Bets (SPA), is welcoming feedback from industry stakeholders less than two months after launching the legal betting market. It has also published a regulatory agenda for 2025-2026.
The public consultation, launched just six weeks after the market’s launch in Brazil, is open to feedback from players, operators, and suppliers. The SPA emphasized that for regulations to succeed, continuous assessment and adjustment are needed to improve the sector’s framework.
In a press conference, Regis Deduna of the SPA said (translated): “We have created a framework of main rules, quite complete and essential for the beginning of the regulated fixed quota betting market, but regulation is (a) cycle; there are always points to be reviewed and improved. We are observing daily the practical effects of the standards we create in order to understand what needs to be improved.”
He continued: “As the betting market is technological, it is very dynamic, and regulation needs always to be attentive to the new needs that arise. We want to invite society to speak out on the regulatory agenda.”
Industry stakeholders and the public can contribute to the public consultation through a government website. The consultation will last 45 days and close on 27 March 2025. There will also be an online public hearing on 21 February 2025.
The SPA was created on 31 January 2024 and has deliberated over more than 100 applications submitted by the deadline of 20 August 2024. Over BRL 2.1 billion has been collected in license fees, and over 150 brands are now authorized to operate in the state.
The Secretariat outlined a few landmark achievements thus far:
- 11,555 domain blocking orders have been issued in an attempt to move the market from gray to regulated
- Full implementation of regulations
- 75 enforcement actions
The 2025-2026 Regulatory Agenda: Key Areas of Focus
A regulatory agenda has also been published. The regulator outlines the need for continuous regulatory improvement, accountability, transparency, and predictability as three of the driving forces behind it. It also suggests that legal certainty, mitigation and prevention of gambling-related negative externalities, promotion of responsible gambling, and guidance of the SPA’s medium—to long-term operations are other reasons for the agenda.
The SPA has outlined that during the second quarter of 2025, it will create a database of self-excluded and banned bettors and certification rules for online gaming studio suppliers.
Plans for the third quarter include reviewing regulations for commercial promotions and advertising, scratchcards, and instant lottery products.
The SPA will focus on supplier regulation, consolidation, and improvement of existing enforcement procedures in the final quarter of 2025.
Looking ahead to next year, much of the focus will be on reviewing and improving existing mechanisms. The first quarter will also look to improve support and care mechanisms for individuals with disordered gambling.
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