Fux sets November 3 hearing on Brazil’s betting MP and summons COB and the Ministry of Sports

Brazil’s Supreme Federal Court has scheduled the public hearing on Provisional Measure No. 1.394/2026 for Tuesday, November 3, at 10h, and the participant list has grown to 28 after the inclusion of the Brazilian Olympic Committee (COB) and the Ministry of Sports. For high-risk payment and betting operators, the point is straightforward: the hearing is not just about regulation in the abstract, but about who controls the flow of betting-tax money and what happens to the anti-match-fixing structure that the MP changed.

1. Justice Luiz Fux, rapporteur in ADI 8.027, expanded the list of participants in the public hearing by ordering the summons of the COB and the Ministry of Sports in a dispatch dated October 27. On Wednesday, October 28, he released the full schedule for the hearing, which will take place in the Second Panel session room of the STF.
2. With the two additions, the number of participants rises from 26 to 28. Each participant will have up to 10 minutes. Names and powers of attorney for representatives, limited to two per participant, must be sent to [email protected] by 15h on Thursday, October 29. Audiovisual material to be shown may also be submitted in advance. A copy of the dispatch will be attached to ADIs 7.721, 7.723, 7.749, 8.024, 8.028, and 8.035.
3. The morning session will be dedicated entirely to sports: ten clubs, the CBF, and then the COB. In the afternoon, the government will speak in sequence, with the AGU, the Treasury, and the Ministry of Sports. In the same block will be the plaintiffs in the actions, the PGR, and the CNC. ANJL and IBJR, plaintiffs in ADI 8.027, will speak immediately after the government, giving them the chance to answer the Union’s arguments in the same block. The Ministries of Health and of Justice and Public Security, whose heads publicly defended a ban, remain off the list.
4. The COB and the Ministry of Sports are not being heard as bystanders. Under Law No. 14.790/2023, 36% of betting revenue would be allocated to sports, with 22.20% going to the Ministry of Sports, 2.20% to the COB, 1.30% to the CPB, and 0.70% to the CBC. Small slices also went to CBDE, CBDU, CBCP, CBEM, and state sports secretariats. The direct transfer of funds to sports entities, without routing them through a ministry, was established by Law No. 14.790/2023.
5. The numbers disclosed for the first 18 months of the regulated market show why these hearings matter for anyone watching Brazil’s payments stack. In the first half of 2025, R$ 478.9 million went to the Ministry of Sports, R$ 154.9 million to the National Sports System, and R$ 47.5 million to the COB, according to SPA/MF data obtained via LAI. Over 2025, sports received about R$ 1.6 billion, the largest amount among all beneficiary areas. In the first half of 2026, sports again took the largest share, with R$ 870.15 million allocated to the Ministry of Sports and state secretariats and the Federal District.

For the COB specifically, operator transfers totaled R$ 95.52 million in 2025. COB president Marco La Porta said the entity collected about R$ 200 million between 2025 and September 2026 from betting operators.