Prizes and Bets Secretariat is created by the Federal Government

The Prizes and Bets Secretariat was officially created this Thursday (31). The structure of the new unit was made official in a decree in the Official Gazette of the Union (DOU) signed by the president of the republic, Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva (PT).

According to the terms, the new secretariat will be responsible for authorizing, allowing and granting, regulating, standardizing, monitoring, supervising, inspecting and sanctioning the segments of free distribution of prizes for the purpose of advertising, advance collection of popular savings, betting fixed quota and all types of lotteries.

The decree also includes sweepstakes and other types of lotteries carried out by horse racing promoters.

In total, 38 positions were assigned to the new structure to coordinate the operation of lotteries, sweepstakes and free distribution of prizes.

The Prizes and Betting Secretariat will be subordinate to the Authorization Sub-Secretariat, the Monitoring and Inspection Sub-Secretariat and the Sanctioning Action Sub-Secretariat.

Duties and details of the Prizes and Bets Secretariat:

Art. 58. The Prizes and Bets Secretariat is responsible for:

I – authorize, permit and grant, regulate, standardize, monitor, supervise, inspect and sanction, in accordance with the Law:

a) the free distribution of prizes as advertising;

b) the free distribution of prizes carried out by civil society organizations;

c) the early capture of popular savings;

d) fixed odds bets;

e) sweepstakes and lotteries carried out by horse racing promoters; It is

f) lotteries, in all their forms;

II – formulate, propose, execute and supervise, within the scope of the Federal Government, the betting and commercial promotions policy, providing for the editing and maintenance of standards, manuals and technical instructions;

III – provide the systems and other information technology solutions necessary for the development of its activities;

IV – initiate administrative proceedings and apply administrative sanctions for infringement of the law and regulations applicable to the segments referred to in section I;

V – regulate, monitor and apply administrative sanctions, in accordance with Law No. 9,613, of March 3, 1998, in relation to the duties provided for in its articles. 10 and art. 11;

VI – enter into a term of commitment, in accordance with the law, at any stage of the administrative process aimed at investigating irregularities in the segments referred to in section I, until the first instance decision is taken;

VII – disciplinary penalties and the sanctioning administrative process for the investigation of administrative infractions, referred to in section IV; It is

VIII – provide for rules to preserve responsible gambling, with the possibility of limiting the amount, frequency and bet amounts per event or per bettor.

Art. 56. The Authorization Subsecretariat is responsible for:

I – analyze authorization requests:

a) free distribution of prizes, through a draw, gift certificate, contest, or similar operation, as advertising or carried out by civil society organizations;

b) attracting popular savings;

c) at the federal level, for the exploration of fixed-odd betting and other lottery modalities; It is

d) Sweepstakes and lotteries carried out by horse racing promoters;

II – support, through studies and technical analyses, the formulation of standards related to fixed-odd betting and other lottery modalities; It is

III – propose the criteria for granting authorizations issued by the Secretariat.

Art. 57. The Subsecretariat for Monitoring and Inspection is responsible for:

I – supervise and develop inspection actions relating to:

a) commercial promotions and other promotional campaigns dedicated to the free distribution of prizes, as advertising or carried out by civil society organizations, through a draw, gift voucher, contest, or similar operation, and to capture popular savings;

b) the operation of fixed-odd betting and other lottery modalities; It is

c) Sweepstakes and lotteries carried out by horse racing promoters;

II – monitor compliance with regulations related to corruption, money laundering and other crimes, in the context of sports betting, other lottery modalities defined by law, commercial promotions and early capture of popular savings;

III – define the technical requirements of the systems to be observed by authorized entities;

IV – provide betting monitoring and commercial promotion systems and other information technology solutions necessary for the development of the Secretariat’s activities;

V – monitor the correct collection of federal taxes owed by operators and bettors, and transfers to legal recipients;

VI- monitor compliance with rules and regulations relating to the rights of bettors and other regulations related to topics within the Secretariat’s competence;

VII – propose, based on inspection activities, corrective measures, adjustments and improvements to regulations related to the Secretariat’s themes;

VIII – analyze the accounting of commercial promotions and other promotional campaigns subject to administrative processes authorizing the free distribution of prizes, as advertising or carried out by civil society organizations, through a draw, gift voucher, contest, or similar operation, and attracting popular savings; It is

IX – initiate, instruct and analyze the administrative sanctioning process to investigate irregularities and propose to the Subsecretariat for Sanctioning Action the application of administrative sanctions or the archiving of the process.

Art. 58. The Subsecretariat for Sanctioning Action is responsible for:

I – judge administrative sanctioning processes, in the first instance, observing the legal and infra-legal limits and powers provided, requests for reconsideration and requests for review formulated in these processes;

II – decide, with reason, to apply administrative sanctions or close the case, when the irregularity has not been identified;

III – carry out the judgment on the admissibility of the resources and instruct the files for submission to the higher authority; It is

IV – propose the signing of a term of commitment, in accordance with the law, at any stage of the administrative process until the first instance decision is taken.

Table of commission positions and functions of trust of the Ministry of Finance

PRIZES AND BETS SECRETARIAT	1	Secretary	CCE 1.17
	1	Deputy Secretary	CCE 1.15
	1	Advisor	CCE 2.13
	2	Assistant	CCE 2.07
Overall coordination	2	General coordinator	FCE 1.13
Coordinator	2	Coordinator	FCE 1.10
	2	Tecnical assistent	CCE 2.05
Staff	1	Chief of Staff	CCE 1.13
Coordination	2	Coordinator	FCE 1.10
	2	Assistant	FCE 2.07
AUTHORIZATION DEPUTY SECRETARY	1	Undersecretary	CCE 1.15
	1	Tecnical assistent	AUTHORIZATION DEPUTY SECRETARY
Overall coordination	2	General coordinator	FCE 1.13
Coordination	2	Coordinator	FCE 1.10
	1	Tecnical assistent	CCE 2.05
SUBSECRETARY OF MONITORING AND SUPERVISION	1	Undersecretary	FCE 1.15
Overall coordination	1	General coordinator	CCE 1.13
Overall coordination	3	General coordinator	FCE 1.13
Coordination	5	Coordinator	FCE 1.10
UNDER SECRETARY OF SANCTIONING ACTIONS	1	Undersecretary	CCE 1.15
	1	Tecnical assistent	CCE 2.05
Overall coordination	1	General coordinator	FCE 1.13
Coordination	2	Coordinator	FCE 1.10