Source: ANJ (France)
Regulators from Belgium, France, Guinea and Côte d’Ivoire met on 20 January 2025 alongside ICE in Barcelona. They agreed to develop cooperation and share practices, and to hold an in-person meeting once a year.
The agreement creates a recurring forum for regulators to coordinate approaches across their jurisdictions.
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Ireland’s Gambling Regulatory Authority (GRAI) signed a memorandum of understanding with Denmark’s Spillemyndigheden to cooperate on online gambling oversight. The authorities intend to share information, coordinate supervision and work together on enforcement involving businesses operating in both countries.
Brazil’s Ministry of Sport and the Administrative Council for Economic Defence (CADE) signed a technical cooperation agreement covering sports integrity, competition and the regulatory environment. The agreement provides for information exchange, joint studies, training and coordinated work on sports, digital economy and sports betting.
Brazil’s Finance and Health ministries signed a 60-month cooperation agreement on 11 December to address problems linked to fixed-odds betting. The agreement provides for information-sharing between their departments, proposals for consumer good practice and training for public health professionals; the Health Ministry said the work would include identifying compulsive behaviour.
GGL board member Ronald Benter met Germany's federal drug and addiction commissioner, Prof. Dr. Hendrik Streeck, for the first time on 5 December 2025 to discuss prevention, regulation and action against illegal gambling. The two sides agreed to continue the dialogue, with the GGL pressing for a StGB reform to extend prosecution to illegal gambling offers operated abroad.
Brazil’s Ministry of Justice and Public Security and the Finance Ministry’s Secretariat of Prizes and Betting signed a technical cooperation agreement to monitor and combat money laundering in the betting market. Published on 6 November after signing on 30 October, it brings the secretariat into the Rede-Lab programme and provides for shared methods, technology and staff training. The agreement runs for 60 months from signing, with possible extension.