JUE 28 DE MARZO DE 2024 - 17:37hs.
ROBERTO BRASIL FERNANDES, ABLE’S ATTORNEY

Gaming legalization in Brazil depends on Deputies and the Federal Government

Brasil Fernandes, lawyer of ABLE (Brazilian Association of State Lotteries) attended yesterday’s meetting in the Senate’s CCJ and, despite the negative result, he is optimistic that Brazil can have Legalized Gaming in this government. “It is not possible to win all matches, the goal is a published law that allows the exploitation of gaming with legal certainty. That's the way,” he says.

I personally attended yesterday's meeting in the Commission of Constitution and Justice (CCJ) of the Federal Senate, which eventually rejected Bill 186/2014, fact that revealed that the parliament can not decide on the legalization of the activity without the fatherhood of the Federal government.

The fragile speech against the legalization of gaming at yesterday's meetin, was based on fallacies, premises and mistaken conclusions, but it was the winning thesis. Perhaps Senator Magno Malta, Randolfe Rodrigues, Requião and Ronaldo Caiado did not realize the favor they gave to the clandestine gambling and organized crime that commands this market in Brazil.

The ball is now with the House of Representatives.

There is a Chamber active and involved in the serious process of legalization (remember that in the CD the gaming legalization has already been approved in the CCJ, CFT, CDEIC and Special Commission of the Regulatory Framework of Gaming in Brazil, and to this end, held several meetings public), and that can join the interests of the Union and approve what is a consensus between Government and Parliament: opening the Brazilian market of Legal Games.

The game that takes place in the Chamber of Deputies (PL 442/91) is fundamental for the championship to continue and have a result later this year.

I am optimistic and believe that we can have the Legalized Gaming in Brazil in this government and that all modalities can be contemplated, by a simple and logical observation: its economic and social existence.

Finally, it is worth remembering that the Federal Senate has already approved the legalization of the Gaming in the Committee for Economic Development - CEDN, on 11/11/2016 (www25.senado.leg.br/web/atividade/materias/- / materia / 117805), and treated the project as strategic for the country's economy. Yesterday’s rejection was just another stage of a legalization process. It is not possible to win all matches, the goal is a published law that allows the exploitation of gaming with legal certainty. That's the way.

Source: GMB


Roberto Brasil Fernandes

Roberto Carvalho Brasil Fernandes, Brazilian, postgraduate in Law, lawyer of ABLE - Brazilian Association of State Lotteries, accredited in the Chamber of Deputies to represent the interest of the state Lotteries (RICD / 3,008,963), signatory of the defense of the Lotteries in the Supreme Federal Court in ADI, ADPF and other constitutional actions.

Guest Conference on Gaming and Lottery, by Clarion Events (BGC and ICE / 2016), by STF in the Great Judgments program, in the II Encuentro Latinoamericano Del Juego / Peru, in the seminar Challenges and Prospects for Regulation of Games / ALMG-Minas Gerais / 2015 and others.

Authority invited by the Special Commission of the Regulatory Framework of Gaming in Brazil to expose the perspective of the state Lotteries and interest in the bills that are processed in the Chamber of Deputies; Author of several articles on the market of Gaming in Brazil. Specialist in international law and internalization of capital and customs.

e-mail:[email protected]