Brazil’s Secretariat of Prizes and Betting established its regulatory agenda for 2026/2027 through an ordinance published on 13 February. The agenda prioritises listed regulatory initiatives and is intended to support legal certainty, predictability and efficiency; the ordinance took effect on publication.
Operators and suppliers can track the Secretariat’s stated regulatory priorities for 2026/2027.
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The UK Gambling Commission has decided that funds from regulatory settlements with operators will go to the Consolidated Fund, with the change taking immediate effect. The Commission said the statutory levy introduced in April 2025, which raises about £100m annually, now funds research, prevention and treatment programmes; it said settlement payments are too variable to support long-term projects.
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.
Cibelae, the Ibero-American corporation of state lotteries and betting, said it now brings together 27 state lotteries and more than 60 companies across 22 countries, representing 87% of the Latin American lottery market. The organisation reported 35% membership growth over the past two years and said 40% of regular members have reached Level 1 of its anti-money-laundering technical standard. For 2027 it plans its own artificial-intelligence alert tool, work on illegal gambling oversight and lower certification costs.