In accordance with a "strategic reflection" process that redefines its central role in financing transactions to a profile that is more complementary to the capital market, BNDES has announced new financing conditions that establish priority areas for development of Brazil’s infrastructure, with smaller spreads and longer grace and amortization periods, aiming at the promotion of target sectors of the economy.

Antaq contemplated the main changes brought in by Decree No. 9,048/17 in relation to private port terminals (TUPs) in Normative Resolution No. 20/2018, published in May of this year, and revoked the previous resolution on the subject (Resolution No. 3,290/14).

A topic has been provoking debates in the administrative tax sphere in the State of São Paulo: the drawing up of infraction notices and impositions of fines (AIIM), based on article 84-A of Law No. 6,374/89, to disregard acts and legal transactions carried out by taxpayers.

With the enactment of Federal Law No. 13,467/2017 (the Labor Reform), various provisions of the Consolidated Labor Laws (CLT) have undergone significant changes, and a number of them have been incorporated into social security legislation through specific adjustments in Federal Law No. 8,212/91. Among the topics common to both universes, the controversy over the legal nature and the form of medical care granted by the company to its employees deserves special mention.

CVM Instruction No. 602, published on August 27, sets forth rules regarding public offerings of hotel collective investment contracts (CICs), the so-called condo-hotels. It repealed CVM Resolution No. 734/2015 (as amended by CVM Resolution No. 752/2016), which until then regulated the matter.

Awaited since November of 2017, the Sanitation Presidential Decree was finally promulgated on July 9. Despite the differences with respect to the versions submitted for public consultation, the rule maintained its foundations, which, if confirmed via its conversion into law, will increase the participation of private enterprise in the sector, thus favoring the structuring of new projects.