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One of the most important changes brought about by Federal Law No. 13,874/19, known as the Economic Freedom Law and arising from the conversion into law of Executive Order No. 881/19, is the waiver of prior licensing for the exercise of economic...

If viewed as a country, the international civil aviation sector would have the world's 20th GDP but would be among the top ten polluters, with over 2% of global greenhouse gas emissions. It is a significant and rapidly growing environmental impact,...

In an extra edition of the Official Federal Gazette of September 20, Law No. 13,874/19 was published, establishing the Declaration of Rights of Economic Freedom, arising from Executive Order No. 881. Although the law does not explicitly mention its...

The breaking of a dam in Mariana in 2015 was not the first incident of its kind in Brazil, but it was a milestone for the mining industry for having caused extensive environmental and social damage in the states of Minas Gerais and Espírito Santo....

Recent environmental accidents in Brazil have generated intense legislative debates, including with respect to changes to the law that establishes the elements of environmental crimes. On June 25 of this year, the Chamber of Deputies approved Bill...

In response to the rupture of the Brumadinho dam (MG) on January 25th of this year, changes under study and already approved in the legislation aim to tighten the regulations of dams in Brazil. On June 25th, for example, the Chamber of Deputies...

Federal Decree No. 9,760, published in April of this year, amends certain provisions of Federal Decree No. 6,514/08, which deals with environmental infractions and sanctions and establishes the federal administrative procedure to investigate them....

Executive Order ("MP", in its abbreviation in Portuguese) No. 884, published last Friday, June 14, amended the Forest Code (Law No. 12,651/2012), so as to determine that registration in the Rural Environmental Registry (CAR) "shall be mandatory for...

The beginning of 2019 was marked by important normative changes in safety of dams, mainly mining dams, in order to tighten federal and state regulations. At the federal level, the main regulatory change was Resolution No. 4 of the National Mining...

Polychlorinated biphenyls, known as PCBs, are synthetic substances formed by a mixture of 209 chlorinated compounds. The Stockholm Convention, of which Brazil is a signatory, has classified PCBs as one of the twelve types of persistent organic...

Ordinance No. 01/2017 of the Genetic Heritage Management Council (CGEN) and Federal Law No. 13,123/15 (the new legal framework for biodiversity, which repealed Presidential Decree No. 2,186-16/2001) established the date of November 6, 2018, as the...

Two new regulations issued by the Brazilian Institute of the Environment and Renewable Natural Resources (“Instituto Brasileiro do Meio Ambiente e dos Recursos Naturais Renováveis” - IBAMA) regulate the Federal Technical Register of...

The Brazilian Institute for the Environment and Renewable Natural Resources (Ibama) published on August 14, 2018, Normative Instruction (IN) No. 18/2018, in order to allow more covered parties to join the fines conversion program. The new standard...

If the high costs resulting from the construction and maintenance of offshore wind farms were not enough, the sector also faces legal uncertainty due to the lack of regulations for environmental licensing. On July 25, 2014, the National...

The Federal Supreme Court (STF) has recognized the existence of general repercussion of an appeal regarding the inapplicability of the statute of limitations on a claim aiming at civil compensation for environmental damage, in a judgment issued on...

Decision No. 076/2018/C by the Board of Directors of the Environmental Agency of the State of São Paulo (Cetesb), which conditions the issuance or renewal of environmental licenses on the structuring and implementation of reverse logistics...

Brazil is considered a country with natural characteristics favorable to agribusiness. With its 8.5 million square kilometers, it is the largest country in South America, the fifth largest in the world, and it has the potential to expand its...

The Strategic Environmental Assessment (AAE) has been causing concern among companies for some time. This is because, although this study is not legally required for environmental licensing of potentially polluting activities, the absence of the...

The Environmental Company of the State of São Paulo (Companhia Ambiental do Estado de São Paulo or “Cetesb”) has already been demanding the payment of the charge for the issuance of technical advice on intervention plans for the reuse of...

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Environmental

The effects of the Economic Freedom Law on the licensing of low risk activities

Voluntary carbon emissions offsetting can yield gains for Brazil’s civil aviation image and competitiveness

The Economic Freedom Law and its impacts on environmental laws and regulations

New legal framework on dam safety and disaster prevention

Bill No. 2,787/19: elements of the crime of ecocide

Chamber of Deputies approves bills tightening dam legislation

Changes in federal administrative procedure to investigate environmental infractions

Executive Order eliminates deadline for registration in CAR

Relevant normative changes regarding dam safety in early 2019

PCBs: the challenge for the next few years

Regularization and adaptation of access to genetic heritage according to the new legal framework for biodiversity

Impacts for entrepreneurs of the new rules on the Federal Technical Register of Potentially Polluting Activities

Ibama extends deadline for requests to convert environmental fines

The challenges of installing offshore wind farms in Brazil

STF recognizes the general repercussion of appeal on the statute of limitations for civil compensation for environmental damage

Reverse logistics: an analysis of Cetesb's new requirement for environmental licensing

RenovaBio: expectations and next steps

Strategic environmental assessment and environmental licensing processes

Cetesb initiates application of provisions of new legislation on the management of contaminated areas in the State of São Paulo

Ibama decides that ownership of environmental licensing processes is not specific to the entrepreneur

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