Coljuegos updates technical requirements for Baloto operations in Colombia

Coljuegos has issued Resolution No. 20260019344, setting new minimum technical and operational requirements for Baloto’s infrastructure, information handling, and certification process. For anyone watching lottery-style gaming in a regulated market, the useful bit is simple: the regulator is tightening the specification sheet for how the game is run, reported, and checked.

1. The new technical annex covers the core parts of Baloto’s operation: the Central Game System, sales terminals, remote connection devices, and the communications network. It also adds specific requirements for balotas and baloteras, plus general functionality rules for the random number generator.Coljuegos says the goal is to establish conditions that protect the integrity of the game process and strengthen control mechanisms. In practice, that means the regulator is not just looking at the draw itself, but at the whole chain that gets a ticket sold, processed, and logged.
2. The annex also sets the rules for generating, processing, and transmitting the information that must be reported to Coljuegos. That includes administrative, financial, control, and betting data, with technical parameters for how that information is handled and sent to the regulator.For operators and service providers, this is the part that matters most operationally: if the reporting pipe is not built to spec, the regulator gets a visibility problem before it gets a compliance problem.
3. Compliance with the technical conditions must be proven through certification issued by one of the laboratories approved by Coljuegos. The operator will have to show that the systems and components covered by the annex meet the technical requirements set by the Colombian authority for Baloto.So this is not a paper exercise. The certification requirement turns the annex into a practical gatekeeper before the regulator treats the setup as compliant.
4. Coljuegos said the draft technical proposal went through a public participation period between July 6 and July 10, 2026 on its official website. During that period, the authority received comments on the draft annex and said they were reviewed and addressed before the resolution was issued.The document was signed by Marco Emilio Hincapié Ramírez, president of Coljuegos, and will take effect once published in the Diario Oficial.

For high-risk operators and their payment partners, the headline is less about lottery mechanics and more about regulatory architecture: Colombia is explicitly defining the technical standards for system integrity, reporting flows, and third-party certification in Baloto’s operation.