In a session this Thursday morning (26), the Senate floor began to clean the House’s agenda of provisional measures (MPs). Of the seven that were on the agenda today, only one, MP 1.085/2021, which establishes new rules for the registration of titles in notaries, disciplining an electronic system of these records with connection between all offices in the country, was not voted on. To speed up the appreciation of the text next week, the president of the House, Rodrigo Pacheco, determined that the reading of the opinion of Senator Weverton (PDT-MA), absent in the session, be made by a rapporteur ad hoc. The text, according to Senate President Rodrigo Pacheco (PSD-MG), received more than 300 amendments in the House.
The centralized system was provided for in Law 11,977/09 since 2009 and will allow the practice of legal acts and transactions with the sending of documents, titles and certificates in electronic format, including in a centralized way.
Called the Electronic Public Registry System (Serp), it will connect the databases of all types of registry offices and will be deployed and managed by public registry officers across the country through a non-profit, private-law civil entity, following the regulation of the Internal Affairs Department of the National Council of Justice (CNJ), body to which the Constitution attributed the competence to regulate notary services.
MPs
Among the approved MPs that are going to be promulgated are 1,087/2021, which allocates R$ 167.2 million for the Ministry of Citizenship to distribute food baskets to the quilombola population. Another approved MP, 1,097/2022, opens credit of R$ 418 million to the Ministry of Infrastructure, with the objective of enabling the reconstruction of roads destroyed by the rains in 14 states. There is also MP 1.093/2021, which provides for the disclosure of the financial result of the General Social Security System (RGPS), monthly, by the Ministry of Labor and Social Security. The plenary also approved MP 1,096/2022, which opens credit of R$ 550 million for the Ministry of Regional Development to help population affected by rains and southern states affected by drought.
ICMS
Before starting the session, without giving any deadlines, Pacheco told journalists that the Senate will give “full attention” to the complementary bill that provides for a ceiling of 17% for ICMS on fuels and electricity. The text of PLP 18/2022, approved yesterday by the Chamber of Deputies is criticized by governors. They estimate a loss in revenue between R$64 billion and R$83 billion, if the rule is approved.
“We will receive what was approved in the House. The intention of the National Congress is to seek intelligent and effective solutions to reduce fuel prices. We will give full attention to the project. We will promote a meeting of leaders next week and define the process of this project. Let’s give it the importance it deserves because it seems to be a smart instrument for reducing prices. In fact, what we are experiencing has already exceeded the limits”, evaluated Rodrigo Pacheco.
According to the congressman, the Senate does not intend to “sacrifice” state governments. Despite this, he admitted that the increase in prices “is very harmful” for the country and that consumers deserve priority in defining measures that seek to contain the rise in fuel at the pump.
