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Brazil publishes two ordinances restricting fixed-odds betting advertising

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Brazil’s government published two ordinances setting rules for fixed-odds betting advertising, according to an opinion article by Oddsgate regulatory affairs director Valter Delfraro. One requires standardised warnings to occupy at least 10% of an advertisement; the other sets restrictions on misleading advertising, promotion by experts, unauthorised operators and marketing to children, teenagers and vulnerable people.

Betting companies and media agents face new warning, advertising and marketing requirements in Brazil.

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Brazil’s PGR withholds position on fixed-odds betting measure before STF

Brazil’s deputy prosecutor-general Luiz Augusto Santos Lima said at an STF public hearing on 3 November that the prosecutor-general had not yet reviewed the case challenging the provisional measure on fixed-odds betting. Justice Luiz Fux said the court could return the issue to the legislative and executive branches, and noted that the STF would need to consider eight constitutional actions if asked to rule.

Brazil's Procuradoria-Geral da República (PGR) did not state a position on the provisional measure that banned fixed-odds betting in the country. This came at the end of a public hearing convened by Justice Luiz Fux of the Supremo Tribunal Federal (STF) on 3 November. Deputy prosecutor-general Luiz Augusto Santos Lima said the prosecutor-general had not yet reviewed the case challenging the measure.

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