Congress Uses LAE Provisional Measure to Reinsert Lula‑Vetoed Licensing Rollbacks, Watchdog Warns

Overview

• Observatório do Clima counted 833 amendments to MP 1.308/2025, with 616 reviving provisions Lula vetoed from July’s general licensing law.
• Beyond the revived items, the note flags 31 unrelated “jabuti” add‑ons and 23 new rollbacks, while only 95 proposals, or 11.4%, are characterized as improvements.
• The flagged changes would broaden self‑licensing via the LAC, curb technical oversight and public participation, compress LAE steps and deadlines, and exclude non‑homologated Indigenous lands and untitled quilombola territories from licensing.
• The Partido Liberal submitted roughly 25% of all amendments, with PP, MDB, União and Republicanos contributing significant shares, according to the tally.
• Procedurally, the MP that created the single‑phase LAE and allows tacit approval is already in force, the review panel has not been installed, and Congress has not convened a veto session, which the group says heightens the risk of conversion without safeguards.