Brazil's National Association of Games and Lotteries (ANJL) and the Brazilian Institute of Responsible Gaming (IBJR) have filed a second petition with the Supreme Federal Court to suspend Provisional Measure 1.394/2026, which banned fixed-odds betting. The petition was submitted on 28 April under cases ADI 7.721, 7.723 and 7.749, overseen by Justice Luiz Fux.
The groups want the measure suspended until Congress converts it into law, rejects it, or it expires, or until case ADI 8027 is heard on its merits. That would preserve operator licences, regulatory acts and the official operator list. If full suspension is denied, ANJL and IBJR are asking the court to suspend the measure for operators already authorised by the Secretariat for Prizes and Betting (SPA), or at minimum extend deadlines under several articles by six months.
Operators must submit wind-down plans to SPA and arrange player fund withdrawals. The petition also asks the court to bar the Ministry of Finance, SPA, Ministry of Justice, Anatel, the Central Bank, Caixa and the Internet Steering Committee from enforcing the measure — revoking licences, blocking sites and apps, or banning payments.
The groups argue operators were given no time to wind down obligations, claiming the regulated market "was destroyed suddenly, in a matter of hours." According to monitoring by bet-legal.org on 28 September, 833 new illegal sites appeared after the ban. The petition says pushing players to the black market contradicts the government's stated aim of player protection. ANJL separately filed ADI 8027 against the provisional measure. The requested transition period of around six months would outlast the maximum life of a provisional measure and transfer the final decision to Congress.
