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Transition team wants to suspend prescription of environmental fines

The elected government's technical team works with a list of priorities in the environmental area, in an attempt to stop the effects of curto deadline of measures taken by the Bolsonaro government. A crucial point of this work, as Estadão found, is adopting measures to suspend the current rules on environmental fines, which have allowed the prescription of thousands of infractions committed across the country.

In practice, what is intended is suspend the effect of decrees and ordinances issued both by former Ministers of the Environment, Ricardo Salles and Joaquim Leite, and by the president of Ibama, Eduardo Bim. The team's understanding is that these administrative acts not only blocked environmental inspection, they also put pressure on environmental agents and allowed offenders to let the process run without consequences.

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The transition is still unclear about the exact number of fines they are about to impose, within what period, nor what the total amount will be. Therefore, carry out this survey with the current government. Internally, information has already arrived that this situation would affect between R$2 billion and R$20 billion by the beginning of next year, hence the need for details of the situation.

At the same time, the team also wants to review the “Adopt a Park” program, which was launched by Salles, as a way of removing environmental conservation units from the hands of the Chico Mendes Institute of Biodiversity (ICMBio) and transferring them to the private sector.

These measures are at the top of the priorities that will be part of the environmental technical group's report that will be presented on Wednesday, November 30, the date established for all transition thematic groups to present a first detailed diagnosis of each sector.

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