On July 16, 2024, the Brazilian government stated that it was developing measures to prevent sports betting and online games (including "small slot machines" ” addiction and compulsive behavior in gaming). According to the g1 website, the Ministry of Finance will complete the formulation of new rules for betting platforms (i.e. betting websites) and online betting games within the next 15 days, and these rules will take effect from January next year.
The company has a deadline by the end of the year to regulate its operations in Brazil. Government-approved websites will be identifiable by the "bet.br" domain name.
In an interview with TV Globo, the head of the Prize and Gambling Secretariat, Regis Dudena, said: "Education is our Want to invest heavily in a way that makes punters understand that the place they should go is an authorized bookmaker where they can truly have the opportunity to entertain in a responsible way that does not put their mental health and finances at risk will not promote illegal activities.”
The government does not predefine what actions will result in a warning or block. This will depend on each bettor and may include unusual increases in the number of operations or bet amounts over a short period of time. Gambling platforms will be required to notify the Treasury of the standards used for users and be forced to set limits.
Future plans to establish a unified national registration system to record the data of excluded people and prevent them from placing bets with other operators .
Regis Dudena said: "This restriction has not been implemented at the beginning, but I think a possible development direction of supervision is to establish A centralized registration system for excluded punters ”
