Yes. CPC/2015 art. 219 established business-day counting for civil procedural deadlines, excluding Saturdays, Sundays, and national holidays.
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Calculate Brazilian procedural deadlines in business days (CPC and CLT) or calendar days (CPP), with the court calendar, the year-end recess, and the DJEN publication-counting rule.
The CPC/2015 standardized business-day counting for civil and federal procedural deadlines (art. 219), excluding Saturdays, Sundays, and public holidays. Since the 2017 labor reform (Law 13.467/2017), CLT art. 775 adopted the same rule for labor procedural deadlines, only deadlines of a substantive nature remain in calendar days, outside this calculator's scope. Criminal procedure, by contrast, kept calendar-day counting (CPP art. 798). CPC art. 220, CLT art. 775-A (Law 13.545/2017), and CPP art. 798-A (Law 14.365/2022) all suspend deadlines during the December 20 to January 20 court recess, the latter with exceptions for defendants in custody, cases under the Maria da Penha Law, and urgent measures ordered by a reasoned decision. CPC art. 224 specifies that counting begins the day after the act or publication, and that expiry always lands on a business day, if it falls on a non-business day, it is extended to the next one (art. 224, §1). Since 2025, publication of procedural acts is centralized in the National Electronic Court Gazette (DJEN, CNJ Resolution 455/2022): the publication date is deemed to be the first business day following the day the information became available, and the deadline only starts counting on the business day after that publication date (art. 224, §§2-3). This calculator applies all three regimes, CPC and CLT business days, and CPP calendar days, accounting for national holidays and the recess, and returns the start date, the expiry, and any extension. It is an educational estimate: state and municipal holidays and court-specific suspensions must be checked separately before any critical deadline.
Before the 2015 CPC, civil procedural deadlines ran in calendar days; art. 219 changed that and switched to counting only business days, excluding Saturdays, Sundays, and holidays. The rationale is to give lawyers real working time, since weekends are not court working days. Art. 224 sets the starting point: counting begins the day after the act, the notice, or the publication, never on the day of the act itself.
Not every branch followed the CPC the same way. Since the 2017 labor reform (Law 13.467/2017), Labor Courts also count procedural deadlines in business days (CLT art. 775), the difference remains only for deadlines of a substantive nature, which stay in calendar days. Criminal procedure kept calendar-day counting (CPP art. 798), though since 2022 (Law 14.365/2022, art. 798-A) it also pauses during the year-end recess, with exceptions for defendants in custody, the Maria da Penha Law, and urgent measures. That is why the tool asks you to choose the regime, applying calendar days to a labor procedural deadline today distorts the expiry.
Suppose a notice published on a Friday and a 15-business-day deadline (illustrative values). Counting does not start on Friday: under art. 224, the starting milestone is the next business day after the act. From there, 15 business days are counted, skipping every Saturday, Sunday, and national holiday along the way.
If the fifteenth business day falls, say, on a holiday or within the December 20 to January 20 recess (art. 220), the expiry is pushed to the next business day (art. 224, §1). The tool shows the counting start, the expiry, and, when there is an extension, the new date, useful to check against the court's system, which is always the final reference.
This tool uses only national holidays (Law 9.093/1995) and the December 20 to January 20 recess. State and municipal holidays, optional holidays, local court holidays, and specific suspensions ordered by the court (strikes, system outages, ordinances) do not enter automatically and may move the expiry.
That is why the result is an estimate for cross-checking, not the final word. For critical deadlines, appeals, answers, motions, always confirm the date in the court's official system and, when in doubt, with a lawyer. A single day counted too many or too few can mean losing the deadline.
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Yes. CPC/2015 art. 219 established business-day counting for civil procedural deadlines, excluding Saturdays, Sundays, and national holidays.
Always confirm local holidays and specific court suspensions before relying on this tool for critical deadlines.
CPC art. 219 (dias úteis) + art. 220 (recesso 20/12-20/01) + art. 224 (início no dia seguinte).