Brazil’s Ministry of Sport creates commission to monitor betting revenue partnerships

Brazil's Ministry of Sport has established a Monitoring and Evaluation Commission to oversee partnership agreements.

Signed with civil society organizations under its National Secretariat for Sports Betting and Economic Development of Sport, the regulation was established through Ordinance 98. 

The Commission will review both "promotion" and "collaboration" partnership agreements, the two contractual mechanisms Brazil uses to fund civil society initiatives with public resources, in this case drawn from betting revenue channeled to sport.

This comes as a survey finds 58% of Brazilians associate sports betting with match-fixing and believe betting has a negative impact on football. 

The Commission will be composed of three regular members and three alternates, all nominated by the secretariat's national secretary and formally appointed by the Sports Minister. 

At least one member must be a permanent federal civil servant, and participation is unpaid, treated as a public service contribution. The secretary retains institutional coordination responsibilities but is barred from interfering with the commission's technical decisions.

Among its responsibilities, the Commission will monitor active partnerships, propose improvements to verification procedures, standardize objectives, costs and performance indicators, and approve technical monitoring reports, with a 45-day window to rule on each report once submitted. 

Members must recuse themselves from evaluating any organization they've been affiliated with in the past five years, whether as a member, director, or employee, or where a conflict of interest exists under Brazil's conflict-of-interest law. 

The Commission will meet at least once every six months, with additional meetings called as needed, and requires a minimum of three members present to reach decisions by majority vote.

The ordinance took effect immediately upon publication.