Brazil’s Secretariat of Prizes and Bets (SPA) opened a public consultation on gambling regulation and published its 2025-2026 agenda. The 45-day consultation closes on 27 March 2025, with an online hearing scheduled for 21 February; the agenda includes supplier rules and work on self-exclusion and banned-bettor data.
Operators and suppliers can submit feedback before the SPA advances planned regulatory changes.
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Brazil’s Ministry of Finance and Ministry of Sport are advancing different parts of gambling policy, according to an opinion article. The SPA published a 2026–2027 regulatory agenda and consulted on authorisation requirements for industry providers; the report also says 197 legal sites generated R$3.3bn in federal revenue in Q1 2026.
In an opinion column on a betting industry site, CORNAZAR executive president Elízabeth Maya Cano urged Colombia’s new government to work with the gaming sector on regulatory modernisation and measures to strengthen legal operators. She argued that excessive tax pressure could make legal businesses less competitive and called for updated rules, stronger technology oversight, action against illegal offers and improved access to financial services.
Romania’s ONJN has convened its Consultative Council for 18 November at 11:00 to discuss gambling reforms, the regulator said. The agenda includes addiction treatment, self-exclusion, illegal online gambling, licence records and a framework for online, fixed-odds and land-based gambling; ONJN has not announced a deadline for the legislative review.
Romania's gambling regulator ONJN has called its Consultative Council together for talks on gambling reforms. The meeting is scheduled for Wednesday, 18 November at 11:00. The agenda also covers gambling licence records for audits and due diligence.
The Commodity Futures Trading Commission has released the agenda for its first Innovation Advisory Committee meeting, which is due next Thursday and includes prediction market regulation. The report says the agenda covers prediction market regulation.
The Netherlands’ Gambling Authority, the KSA, published its 2026 agenda, setting out plans to combat illegal gambling and protect vulnerable players. The regulator said it would work with payment, hosting and social media providers to disrupt the wider infrastructure supporting illegal gambling, while also tightening oversight of licensees’ duty-of-care obligations.