Zona de Azar Brasil – Brazil: Finance Recognizes Quinel as Online Betting and Gaming Certifier
Brazil.- July 17, 2024 www.zonadeazar.com Yesterday, the 15th, the Secretariat of Prizes and Bets (SPA) of the Ministry of Finance published, in the Official Gazette of the Union (DOU), SPA/MF Ordinance No. 1,132, recognizing the “operational capacity of the company Quinel Limited as a certifying entity for betting systems, live gaming studios and online games to be used by fixed-odd betting lottery operators”.
If the conditions of legal qualification, tax and labor regularity, suitability and technical qualification are maintained, recognition will be valid for three years.
Quinel, an international gaming testing laboratory, joins the other certifying entities recognized by the Ministry of Finance: Gaming Laboratories International (GLI), BMM Spais Testlabs, eCOGRA Limited and Gaming Associates Europe.
Furthermore, in May this year, the laboratory signed an approval agreement with Loterias do Estado do Paraná (Lottopar), enabling Quinel to work with betting operators in the region.
SPA/MF Ordinance No. 1,132
THE SECRETARY OF PRIZES AND BETS OF THE MINISTRY OF FINANCE, in the use of the powers conferred on him by art. 55, item I, item “d”, of Annex I of Decree No. 11,907, of January 30, 2024, considering the provisions of item I of art. 4th of Ordinance MF-SPA/MF nº 300, of February 24, 2024, resolves:
Art. 1 Recognize the operational capacity of the company Quinel Limited as a certifying entity for betting systems, live gaming studios and online games to be used by fixed-odd betting lottery operators.
Single paragraph. The recognition referred to in the caput will be valid for a period of three years, as long as the conditions of legal qualification, tax and labor regularity, suitability and technical qualification demonstrated in the files of SEI Process No. 14022.045212/2024-58 are maintained, according to the SEI Technical Note nº 1797/2024/MF, pursuant to art. 17 of Ordinance MF-SPA/MF nº 300, of February 24, 2024.
Art. 2 This Ordinance comes into force on the date of its publication.
Regis Anderson Dudena
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