SRIJ
Published 8 November 2026, 21:11
SRIJ — Serviço de Regulação e Inspeção de Jogos (gambling regulation and inspection service)
The gambling regulator, part of the public institute Turismo de Portugal. It issues licences for online betting and online casinos, keeps public lists of licensed brands, casinos and bingo halls, requires operators to give players tools to limit their own gambling, and gets unlicensed sites blocked.
Where you come across it. Checking whether a betting site is legal; a complaint about an operator; self-exclusion from gambling.
The state lotteries — Euromilhões, Totoloto, scratchcards — are not supervised by SRIJ: they are run by Santa Casa da Misericórdia de Lisboa. And if a site is not on the SRIJ list, a foreign licence, such as a Maltese or Cypriot one, does not count in Portugal.
Official website: srij.turismodeportugal.pt