{"id":24114,"date":"2025-04-08T20:16:30","date_gmt":"2025-04-08T23:16:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lefosse.azurewebsites.net\/ministry-of-sports-regulates-procedures-for-monitoring-sports-betting-sites\/"},"modified":"2025-12-11T12:34:38","modified_gmt":"2025-12-11T15:34:38","slug":"ministry-of-sports-regulates-procedures-for-monitoring-sports-betting-sites","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lefosse.com\/en\/news\/alerts\/ministry-of-sports-regulates-procedures-for-monitoring-sports-betting-sites\/","title":{"rendered":"Ministry of Sports regulates procedures for monitoring sports betting sites"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">On April 7, 2025, the Ministry of Sports (&#8220;<strong>MESP<\/strong>&#8220;) published the Rule No. 31\/2025, to regulate the monitoring procedures for the electronic sites of authorized operators to exploit the fixed-odds lottery betting modality on real sports-themed events.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Under the new regulation, the National Secretariat for Sports Betting and Economic Development of Sports, linked to MESP, must <em>(i)<\/em> establish and <em>(ii)<\/em> coordinate a technical team whose function will be to periodically analyze the sites of sports betting operators.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">In addition to verifying compliance with legal and regulatory requirements, the periodic analysis will focus on the following essential aspects:<\/p>\n<ol style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n<li><u>The verification of the regularity of the commercial brand used by the operator<\/u>, to ensure correspondence with the brand registered in the Secretariat of Prizes and Betting of the Ministry of Finance (<em>Secretaria de Pr\u00eamios e Apostas <\/em>\u2013 \u201c<strong>SPA\/MF<\/strong>\u201d) authorization process;<\/li>\n<li><u>The verification of the offer of sports modalities<\/u>, to ensure they comply with the list of activities that can be subject to sports betting, detailed in <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.in.gov.br\/en\/web\/dou\/-\/portaria-mesp-n-125-de-30-de-dezembro-de-2024-605034388\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">MESP Ordinance No. 125\/2024<\/a><\/span> and any updates;<\/li>\n<li><u>The identification of any practices that may constitute violations of current regulations<\/u>, such as <em>(i) <\/em>offering prohibited bets; and <em>(ii)<\/em> the absence of effective mechanisms to prevent the participation of children and adolescents.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Any irregularities found by the technical team must be included in a report that will be sent to SPA\/MF for the adoption of appropriate measures. Rule MESP No. 31\/2025 also establishes that the Ministry of Sports may develop an integrity platform for the sector&#8217;s sports operations and may form partnerships with public and private entities with the aim of improving monitoring tools and processes.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Check the full text of Rule MESP No. 31\/2025 by clicking <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.in.gov.br\/en\/web\/dou\/-\/portaria-mesp-n-31-de-4-de-abril-de-2025-622236549\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">here<\/a><\/span>.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Lefosse\u2019s <span style=\"color: #7800e5;\"><a style=\"color: #7800e5;\" href=\"\/en\/our-practices\/public-law-and-regulation\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Public Law and Regulation<\/a><\/span> Team closely monitors the changes that impact the Brazilian betting sector. For further clarification on this matter, or others that may be of interest to you, contact our professionals.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On April 7, 2025, the Ministry of Sports (&#8220;MESP&#8220;) published the Rule No. 31\/2025, to regulate the monitoring procedures for the electronic sites of authorized operators to exploit the fixed-odds lottery betting modality on real sports-themed events. Under the new regulation, the National Secretariat for Sports Betting and Economic Development of Sports, linked to MESP, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":49,"featured_media":19087,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[214,215],"tags":[273,314,313,271,315],"class_list":["post-24114","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-alerta","category-alerts","tag-eduardo-carvalhaes","tag-gabriel-pretola","tag-karen-coutinho","tag-public-law","tag-sports-betting"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.5 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Ministry regulates sports betting websites in Brazil<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"The National Secretariat of Sports Betting and Sports Economic Development will establish and coordinate a 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