The Ministry of Environment and Climate Change (MMA) reported today (6), in Brasília, that federal government teams are studying the possibility of creating new regulations for the environmental licensing process.
The goal is to reduce the negative impacts of changes promoted by the new legal framework.
“The analysis includes the possibility of issuing federal decrees, ordinances, ministerial normative instructions and, in particular, resolutions from the National Environmental Council (Conama)”, highlights a note sent to Brazil Agency.
According to the agency, the judicialization of changes promoted by the National Congress, as Minister Marina Silva, of Environment and Climate Change, had previously suggested, was also not discarded. “The Attorney General’s Office has the role of representation before the Judiciary”, highlights the same note.
It adds that, although the environmental licensing processes that have been initiated are fully subject to the new guidelines, there is a transition rule to be followed for requests that are ongoing with environmental agencies. Therefore, obligations and schedules established in the processes need to be met.
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According to the MMA, throughout the processing of the new laws that deal with the subject, there was an effort on the part of the federal government to preserve environmental licensing as a tool capable of “avoiding, reducing and compensating adverse impacts from potentially polluting activities”.
The report also highlights that the vetoes from President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva to Law 15,190/2025 had this objective, but were rejected by the National Congress.
“The changes to the law suggested by the president maintained the integrity of the environmental licensing process in the country, while also considering points of modernization of the legislation brought by parliamentarians”, he concludes.
