27/03/2024
On December 22, 2023, the Federal Environmental Agency in Brazil (Instituto Brasileiro do Meio Ambiente e dos Recursos Naturais Renováveis or “IBAMA”) enacted the Ordinance No. 260/2023, which change the calculation guidelines for the Environmental Control and Inspection Fee (Taxa de Controle e Fiscalização Ambiental or “TCFA”). Said alteration has the potential to significantly increase …
29/02/2024
On February 9th, 2024, the State Council of Environmental Policy published Resolution No. 249/2024, which establishes guidelines for the implementation of Take-Back Systems (“SLRs” in the Portuguese abbreviation) for post-consumer products and packaging in the State of Minas Gerais. The Resolution applies to manufacturers, importers, distributors and retailers of goods that generate postconsumer products and …
19/01/2024
Mato Grosso has approved Bill of Law No. 64/2023 which changes the State´s Environmental Code, thereby authorizing the reallocation of legal reserve areas for mining purposes, so long as certain conditions are met. Considering that mineral deposits cannot be moved, the new law allows legal reserve areas to be moved to other rural properties. However, mining …
17/01/2024
On January 8th, 2024, the Brazilian Securities and Exchange Commission (Comissão de Valores Mobiliários or “CVM”) released the updated version of the Volume I of its educational series, so-called ‘CVM’s Sustainable Guide’, with emphasis on previously underexplored topics, and simplifying the material to facilitate the investor comprehension. The practice of ‘greenwashing’, which has been covered in …
12/01/2024
On January 12, 2024, Law 14.806/2024 was published, amending Law 6.360/1976 to oblige pharmaceutical laboratories to include warnings on the labels, leaflets and advertising materials of their products about the presence of substances whose use is considered doping. The new law establishes that medicines containing substances banned by the World Anti-Doping Code must carry these warnings. This is an effort …
12/01/2024
Resolution No. 02/2024 was published on January 2nd, 2024, by the State Department of Environment, Infrastructure, and Logistics (“SEMIL”), updating the criteria and parameters for environmental compensation for the removal of native vegetation, cutting of isolated trees, or for interventions in Permanent Preservation Areas (“APP”) in both rural and urban areas of the State. The …
05/01/2024
On December 30, 2023, the “Bets Law” (Law Nº 14.790/2023) entered into force, which regulates the lottery method known as fixed-odds betting. The Bets Law changes several Brazilian laws, including Law Nº 5,768/1971, Provisional Measure Nº 2,158-35/2001 and specially on Law Nº 13,756/2018, which created the modality commonly known as bets. As we reported in …
04/01/2024
In the last week of 2023, Brazil promulgated the Nagoya Protocol, an international agreement on access to genetic resources and the benefit-sharing arising to their utilization. The Protocol – which came into force internationally in 2014, and was ratified by Brazil in 2021 -, had its promulgation through Federal Decree No. 11,865 on December 27th, 2023, …
04/01/2024
On December 15, 2023, the Brazilian Health Regulatory Agency (“Anvisa”) approved the Regulatory Agenda for the 2024-2025 cycle. Published in the Federal Register of December 18, 2023, through Ordinance 1409/2023, the 2024-2025 Agenda has 172 regulatory topics distributed in 16 macro-themes, aligned with the strategic objectives of the Strategic Plan 2024-2027 and feasible to implement during the biennium. …
02/01/2024
The Ministry of Health (“MoH”) extended the deadline for contributions to the Public Consultation #54/2023 (“PC #54/2023”) until February 08, 2024, regarding the draft of the Interinisterial Ordinance which regulates Product Development Partnerships – PDPs. The documents covered by PC # 54/2023 and the address for sending contributions are available through this link. Highlight: the registration is exclusive to …