News STF – Full Court strikes down ban on the transportation of live animals in Santos (SP) 15 de October de 2018 / 23 de September de 2026 by Senise Paiva Advogados | Leave a Comment Upholding the Claims of Non-Compliance with a Fundamental Precept (ADPF) 514 and 516 at its session on Thursday (11th), the Full Court of the Federal Supreme Court (STF) declared unconstitutional a rule of the Municipality of Santos (SP) that prohibited the transportation of live cargo in the municipality’s urban and urban expansion areas. The actions, […] Read more »
News Reducing Red Tape and Simplification. 9 de October de 2018 / 23 de September de 2026 by Senise Paiva Advogados | Leave a Comment On October 9, 2018, Law No. 13,726, of October 8, 2018, was published in the Official Gazette of the Union. It streamlines administrative acts and procedures of the branches of government of the Federal Government, the States, the Federal District and the Municipalities, and creates the Red Tape Reduction and Simplification Seal. The purpose of […] Read more »
News Reverse logistics of electrical and electronic equipment and the ICMS exemption. 4 de October de 2018 / 23 de September de 2026 by Senise Paiva Advogados | Leave a Comment Federal Law No. 12,305/2010, which establishes the National Solid Waste Policy, provides that manufacturers, importers, distributors and retailers of electrical and electronic equipment must implement, structure and operate reverse logistics systems, so as to ensure the return of products discarded by consumers and the subsequent environmentally sound final disposal of what is returned. However, there […] Read more »
News Federal Decree No. 9,493/2018 and Army-Controlled Products (PCE). 13 de September de 2018 / 23 de September de 2026 by Senise Paiva Advogados | Leave a Comment Federal Decree No. 9,493/2018, which approves the new regulation for the oversight of controlled products, was published in the Official Gazette of the Union on 9/6/2018. This regulation applies to Army-Controlled Products (PCE), and the Army Command is responsible for regulating, authorizing and overseeing the manufacture, trade, import, export, use, provision of services, collecting, sport […] Read more »
News EXTENSION OF THE DEADLINE TO APPLY FOR THE CONVERSION OF IBAMA FINES 15 de August de 2018 / 23 de September de 2026 by Senise Paiva Advogados | Leave a Comment IBAMA Normative Instruction No. 18 of 08/10/2018 was published today in the Official Gazette of the Union, amending article 76 of Normative Instruction No. 6/2018 issued by the Brazilian Institute of the Environment and Renewable Natural Resources (IBAMA), which regulated the procedures required for converting fines into services for the preservation, improvement and recovery of […] Read more »
News DECREE No. 9,470, OF 08/14/2018 – DOU 08/15/2018 Promulgates the Minamata Convention on Mercury, signed by the Federative Republic of Brazil in Kumamoto on October 10, 2013. 15 de August de 2018 / 23 de September de 2026 by Senise Paiva Advogados | Leave a Comment Unofficial translation. THE PRESIDENT OF THE REPUBLIC, in the exercise of the powers conferred by art. 84, head, item IV, of the Constitution, and Whereas the Federative Republic of Brazil signed the Minamata Convention on Mercury in Kumamoto on October 10, 2013; Whereas the National Congress approved the Convention through Legislative Decree No. 99, on […] Read more »
News DECREE No. 9,469, OF 08/14/2018 – DOU 08/15/2018 Amends Decree No. 9,190, of November 1, 2017, to provide for guidelines and criteria for the qualification of Social Organizations – OS. 15 de August de 2018 / 23 de September de 2026 by Senise Paiva Advogados | Leave a Comment Unofficial translation. THE PRESIDENT OF THE REPUBLIC, in the exercise of the powers conferred by art. 84, head, item IV, of the Constitution, and in view of the provisions of art. 20 of Law No. 9,637, of May 15, 1998, DECREES: Art. 1 Decree No. 9,190, of November 1, 2017, is amended as follows: “Art. […] Read more »
News LAW No. 13,702, OF 08/06/2018 – DOU 08/07/2018 7 de August de 2018 / 23 de September de 2026 by Senise Paiva Advogados | Leave a Comment Unofficial translation. Amends Law No. 12,787, of January 11, 2013, which provides for the national irrigation policy, to establish an exception to the sanction of repossession of the plot in public irrigation projects when the property is mortgaged in favor of official financial institutions that have provided credit to the irrigating farmer, as well as […] Read more »
News Adjustments to hydrological risk coverage are debated in a public hearing 2 de August de 2018 / 23 de September de 2026 by Senise Paiva Advogados | Leave a Comment At its public meeting this Tuesday (7/24), the Board of ANEEL (the Brazilian Electricity Regulatory Agency) decided to open a public hearing to assess, together with society, the possibility of hydroelectric generators changing the product contracted in the renegotiation of hydrological risk under Normative Resolution 684/2015, in order to adjust their coverage of hydrological risk. […] Read more »
News Second-generation ethanol overcomes technical problems and is seen as competitive 2 de August de 2018 / 23 de September de 2026 by Senise Paiva Advogados | Leave a Comment Second-generation ethanol production is overcoming the technical difficulties that delayed its development and is now seen as commercially competitive, with oil prices close to 70 dollars a barrel, industry representatives said on Tuesday. As countries around the world prepare to meet their respective commitments under the Paris climate agreement, the global increase in regulations favoring […] Read more »