The Supreme Federal Court (STF) has defined the preliminary list of participants for the public hearing that will discuss the impacts of betting in Brazil. There are 44 speakers. Among them, representatives from the Central Bank, betting sites (ANJL, IBJR, and IJL), football teams, Febraban, and psychiatrists. The meeting will take place on November 11.
The clubs Fluminense, Botafogo, and Cruzeiro have requested participation. The teams have not yet defined the names of their representatives.
Among the representatives of the betting sector, are the National Association of Games and Lotteries (ANJL) and the Brazilian Institute of Responsible Gaming (IBJR). The Brazilian Institute of Responsible Gaming (IBJR) has requested to participate as amicus curiae. The State Lottery of Rio de Janeiro (Loterj) and the State Lotteries of Paraná (Lottopar) will also participate.
The president of the Federal Court of Accounts (TCU), Bruno Dantas, and the Minister of Human Rights, Macaé Evaristo, are other names on the preliminary list of speakers. The Central Bank will send the Deputy Attorney General of the Department of Legal Consulting and Extrajudicial Representation, Lucas Alves Freire, to participate as a speaker.
The preliminary list also includes the president of the Brazilian Association of Psychiatry, Antônio Geraldo da Silva, and the president of the Brazilian Federation of Banks (Febraban), Isaac Sidney Menezes.
The public hearing was convened by Minister Luiz Fux of the STF in the context of a lawsuit presented by the National Confederation of Commerce of Goods, Services, and Tourism (CNC), which asks the court to declare unconstitutional the law that regulates betting, enacted in December 2023.
In the lawsuit, the CNC claims that Law 14.790/2023 promotes an increase in family indebtedness and impacts on economic, social, and public health spheres, affecting mainly the most vulnerable social classes.
In the convocation order, Fux stated that the hearing aims to clarify issues related to mental health, the neurological impacts of betting on human behavior, the economic effects of the practice on commerce, and its effects on the domestic economy, in addition to the social consequences of this new regulatory framework.
The preliminary list is composed as follows:
1- National Confederation of Commerce of Goods, Services, and Tourism (CNC) – speakers: Felipe De As Tavares and Fabio Gomes Morand Bentes
2- Solidarity – speaker: Paulo Pereira da Silva (president)
3- Ministry of Finance – speaker: Regis Dudena (Secretary of Prizes and Betting)
4- Central Bank – speaker: Lucas Alves Freire (Deputy Attorney General – Department of Legal Consulting and Extrajudicial Representation)
5- Federal Court of Accounts – speaker: President Bruno Dantas
6- Attorney General's Office – speakers: Nathália Geraldo de Santi and Deputy Attorney General to be designated
7- Ministry of Human Rights – speaker: Minister Macaé Evaristo
8- Ministry of Racial Equality – speaker: Ana Míria dos Santos Carvalho Carinhanha (Deputy Executive Secretary)
9- Ministry of Justice and Public Security: (a) Department of Asset Recovery and International Legal Cooperation – DRCI – speaker: Bernardo Antônio Machado Mota (General Coordinator of Institutional Articulation); (b) Secretary of Digital Rights – speaker: Lílian Manoela Monteiro Cintra de Melo
10- Ministry of Health – speaker: Gabriella de Andrade Boska (nurse)
11- Financial Activities Control Council (COAF) – speaker: Rafael Bezerra Ximenes de Vasconcelos (Director of Supervision)
12- Ministry of Social Development and Fight Against Hunger – speakers: André Quintão Silva (National Secretary of Social Assistance), Clara Carolina de Sá (Director of the Department of Management of the Unified Social Assistance System), Maria Helena Gabarra Osório (General Coordinator of Regulation of Access and Normative Affairs of SUAS) and Eliane Aquino Custódio (National Secretary of Income of Citizenship)
13- National Secretary of Sports Betting and Economic Development of the Ministry of Sports – speaker: Giovanni Rocco
14- Public Defender's Office of the Union (DPU) – speaker: Leonardo Cardoso de Magalhães (Federal Public Defender-General)
15- Brazilian Institute of Legal Gaming (IJL) – speaker: Magno José Santos de Sousa (president)
16- National Association of Games and Lotteries (ANJL) – speaker: Pietro Cardia Lorenzoni – request for amicus curiae
17- Women of Brazil Group – speaker: Andreia Schroder (sociologist and master in Statistics for Social Sciences)
18- Educafro – speaker: Friar David Santos (executive director)
19- Federal Council of the Order of Lawyers of Brazil (CFOAB) – speaker: Daniel Corrêa Homem de Carvalho (president Special Commission of Law of Sports Games, Lotteries, and Entertainment)
20- National Council of Self-Regulation in Advertising (Conar) – speaker: Juliana Nakata Albuquerque (Executive Vice President)
21- Loterj
22- Lottopar
23- Brazilian Association of Psychiatry – speakers: Antônio Geraldo da Silva (president) and Hermano Tavares (professor at USP and member of the Addiction Psychiatry Commission of ABP)
24- Brazilian Federation of Banks (Febraban) – speaker: Isaac Sidney Menezes Ferreira (president)
25- Birgitte Sand (Danish) – speaker: Birgitte Sand (former executive director of the Danish Authority for Gambling and Betting)
26- Carlos Hernández Rivera (Spanish) – speaker: Carlos Hernández Rivera (former director-general of the “Dirección General de Ordenación del Juego” – DGOJ)
27- Alana Institute
28- International Gaming Association (aigaming) – speakers: Waldir Eustáquio Marques Júnior and Márcio Borges Malta
29- Brazilian Institute for the Study of Business and Tax Law – speaker: Leonardo Ribeiro Pessoa (president)
30- Economic Regulation Laboratory of the Law School of the State University of Rio de Janeiro – speakers: Andrea Magalhães, André Ribeiro Tosta, Carina de Castro Quirino, José Vicente Santos de Mendonça, and Rodrigo Grieco Penna
31- National Academy of Sports Law (ANDD) – speakers: Paulo Sergio Feuz and Terence Zveiter (president)
32- Brazilian Institute for Consumer Defense – speaker: Walter José Faiad de Moura
33- Inter-Union Department of Statistics and Socioeconomic Studies (Dieese) – speaker: Adriana Márcia Marcolino (technical director)
34- Laboratory of Law of New Technologies and Disruptive Business Models of USP – speakers: Isadora Valadares Assunção and Pedro Henrique Figueiredo (coordinators)
35- Professor of the PPGD at UNIFOR, responsible for the Research Project on "Sports Betting and the Prevention of Pathological Gambling: Improvement of Law 13.756/2018 and the use of algorithms for monitoring players at risk" – speaker: Eduardo Rocha Dias
36- Brazilian Association of Criminal Lawyers (Abracrim) – speaker: Maíra Fernandes (president of the Economic Criminal Law Commission of Abracrim-RJ)
37- Brazilian Association of Radio and Television Broadcasters (Abert) – speaker: Gustavo Binenbojm
38- National Association of Retirees, People with Disabilities, the Elderly, Pensioners, and Assured of Social Security – speaker: Maria Luiza F. de Almeida Neri (president)
39- Fluminense Football Club – speaker to be confirmed
40- Botafogo de Futebol e Regatas – speaker to be confirmed
41- Cruzeiro Esporte Clube – speaker to be confirmed
42- Rector of the Zumbi dos Palmares University – speaker: José Vicente (rector) – Note: Did not indicate specific thematic relevance.
43- Institute for Retail Development – speaker to be confirmed – Note: The CNC will likely address the same aspects.
44- Brazilian Institute of Responsible Gaming (IBJR) – speaker: Celso Cintra Mori – request for amicus curiae – Note: The invited entities Brazilian Institute of Legal Gaming (IJL) and the National Association of Games and Lotteries (ANJL) will likely address the same aspects.
Source: CNN
