The Peruvian Ministry of Foreign Trade and Tourism published Supreme Decree No. 015-2010-MINCETUR on September 3, 2010, which will regulate Monitoring and Control Systems in the Peruvian market. Gaming Laboratories International (GLI) has clarified some of the key points. GLI has performed an unofficial English translation of Supreme Decree No. 015-2010-MINCETUR for informational purposes. It is currently available to suppliers upon their request and free of charge but suppliers should seek an official translation and consult with their legal counsel for strict interpretation and business decisions based on the Decree.

On the first of October of 2011 all Casino owners will find themselves obligated to implement a single Unified Control System in Real Time (SUCTR) in their slot machine gaming facility. The SUCTR must technically ensure the inviolability of the data generated by each slot machine operated in a gaming facility. It must allow monitoring of the architecture, hardware and/or software that forms an integral part of the Unified Control System in Real Time by the Ministry of Foreign Trade and Tourism (“Ministerio de Comercio Exterior y Turismo” (MINCETUR)) and the National Superintendence of Tax Administration (“Superintendencia Nacional de Administración Tributaria” (SUNAT)). Said monitoring by the regulatory body is required by means of remote access to metering information, significant events and incident information by way of the Internet Protocol Suite; “Transmission Control Protocol/Internet Protocol” (TCP/IP).

The Unified Control System in Real Time (SUCTR) must be authorized and registered by the DGJCMT prior to being implemented in the Gaming facility. The supplier must present a request to the DGJCMT along with certain required information along with a previously obtained Certificate of Compliance in order for the DGJCMT to authorize and register a SUCTR system. New versions, modifications or technological upgrades of the architecture, hardware, software and/or other applications of a SUCTR system must be submitted for a new technical evaluation by an accredited testing/certification laboratory, and consequently will be subjected to the authorization and registration process prior to implementation.

Peru expects suppliers to develop a special application that will extract data from the System Server database, convert it into a data packet with a specific required format and transmit it to their data center. The DGJCMT is expecting the gaming test laboratory to test this “add on” module against the applicable regulations. The gaming test laboratory is not required to test communication with the actual regulatory agency’s data center; the data transmission testing will be conducted by simulating the data transmission within the laboratory setting. The submitting supplier will need to provide GLI with a method for verifying the data packets. The regulatory agency will in turn, establish controls to ensure the receipt, storage, etc at their live data center.

GLI has been accredited by the DGJCMT as a qualified testing/certification laboratory for issuance of compliance upon performing the corresponding evaluations and testing of suitability, in conformity with the specifications and technical conditions established in Aneex-1 of the Decree. Full details of the GLI Supplier Advisory can be found at http://files.e2ma.net/26292/assets/docs/supplier_advisory_-_peru_mcs_system_advisory.pdf. (E-04.19.11)

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