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Brazil’s Chamber Backs Fast-Track Environmental License, Sends MP to Senate

The package revives vetoed flexibilities, adding mining-friendly deadlines, under a tight Senate timetable.

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Legislação facilita a retomada das obras da BR-319, que liga Manaus a Porto Velho e reduz custos logísticos.
Câmara aprova MP que institui a Licença Ambiental Especial

Overview

  • Lawmakers approved MP 1,308 by 300–123 to create the Special Environmental License for government-designated strategic projects, moving the measure to the Senate before it expires.
  • The license preserves the three traditional phases of permitting with a maximum one-year deadline, with eligible projects to be defined by the Council of Government.
  • The approved text restores provisions Lula had vetoed, including reuse of prior environmental studies and a dispensation for maintenance dredging on hydroways and naturally navigable rivers.
  • Use of the simplified Licença por Adesão e Compromisso is broadened for medium-impact activities but explicitly excludes mining and other high-risk cases, and the Chamber removed a proposed fast-track for strategic road repairs.
  • The relator’s report reopens the licensing law and inserts an amendment extending deadlines to start mining operations to as long as six years, drawing warnings of legal challenges from environmental groups.