Brazil’s Ministry of Sport published Ordinance MESP No. 27 on 7 April, setting the sports and disciplines permitted for fixed-odds bets on real events. The measure establishes eight categories and revokes two earlier ordinances, the ministry said.
Operators must limit fixed-odds offerings on real events to the sports and disciplines on the official list.
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Brazil’s MP 1,394/2026 prohibits fixed-odds betting, according to a report discussing the measure and its effects on licensed operators. The report says 85 operators paid R$30 million each for five-year authorisations, totalling R$2.55 billion, and that the government will not refund fees for unused periods. Finance Minister Dario Durigan said investors would have predictability in Brazil.
Brazil's government has prohibited fixed-odds betting through MP 1,394/2026, according to the report. The measure ends authorisations that had been active for 22 months. The government will not refund the authorisation fees or the portion covering the remaining period, the report says.
Brazil’s deputy prosecutor-general Luiz Augusto Santos Lima said at an STF public hearing on 3 November that the prosecutor-general had not yet reviewed the case challenging the provisional measure on fixed-odds betting. Justice Luiz Fux said the court could return the issue to the legislative and executive branches, and noted that the STF would need to consider eight constitutional actions if asked to rule.
Brazil's Procuradoria-Geral da República (PGR) did not state a position on the provisional measure that banned fixed-odds betting in the country. This came at the end of a public hearing convened by Justice Luiz Fux of the Supremo Tribunal Federal (STF) on 3 November. Deputy prosecutor-general Luiz Augusto Santos Lima said the prosecutor-general had not yet reviewed the case challenging the measure.
Brazil’s Provisional Measure 1.394/2026 prohibits fixed-odds betting and related advertising, marketing and sponsorship, according to an opinion article. It requires advertising and sponsorship materials to be removed within ten days of publication and operators’ existing authorisations to end after 30 days. The article says the changes raise questions about existing commercial contracts.
Brazil's Provisional Measure 1.394 of 25 September 2026 prohibits fixed-odds betting in the country, according to an opinion article. The article was written by Marcos Paulo de Castro Pereira, a lawyer at Ciscato Advogados Associados.
Brazil’s government is seeking congressional approval of a provisional measure banning fixed-odds betting by 20 December, but formal committee proceedings have not begun. The measure has 94 amendments pending, and is due to enter an expedited procedure on 9 November; it could expire on 4 March 2027 if Congress does not approve it, according to a calculation cited in the report.
Brazil's government is seeking congressional approval by 20 December of Provisional Measure (MP) 1.394/2026, which would ban fixed-odds betting, but the measure has not begun formal committee proceedings in Congress. According to Congress's website, the measure remains awaiting the establishment of the committee; members have been nominated, but no president or rapporteur has been appointed, which has held up consideration of 94 outstanding amendments.
Brazil’s 85 federal fixed-odds betting authorisations expired on 25 October under Provisional Measure 1,394, which set them to end after 30 days. The article says nearly 190 brands had already switched off their sites in early October; operators received no refund of the R$30 million paid for each five-year licence.
Brazil's 85 federal fixed-odds betting authorisations expired on 25 October, according to the source. Provisional Measure 1,394 of 25 September had set them to end after 30 days. The operators paid BRL30m for each five-year licence and the source states the payments were not refunded. Nearly 190 brands had already switched off their sites in the first days of October.