The CAE (Commission on Economic Affairs) of the Senate approved this Tuesday (5) a bill that authorizes the discharge or installment of fines imposed by Ibama (Brazilian Institute of the Environment) to rural producers. Part of the infraction notices applied by the agency is related to deforestation.
The project is part of the package dubbed by environmentalists and parliamentarians as “boiadinhas”, as the processing of texts that take place without obstruction or that have the complacency of President Rodrigo Pacheco (PSD-MG) has been called.
The text was approved by the CAE on a final basis. This way, it goes straight to the Chamber of Deputies, without having to go through the Senate Plenary.
According to the project’s rapporteur, Senator Zequinha Marinho (PL-PA), debts may be paid in up to 60 months for producers who own properties with up to four fiscal modules, considered a small property.
Debts may be paid or paid in installments as follows: in cash, with a 10% reduction in the debt amount and a 100% reduction in charges. It also creates a device that can guarantee an additional 30% cumulative discount.
There is also the chance to pay the debt in 60 months, with a 90% reduction in charges. The amount to be paid in installments must not be less than R$50 for individuals and R$200 for legal entities.
The original text provided for the authorization to settle or pay in installments overdue debts or those that will expire by December 31, 2022. However, the rapporteur restricted the renegotiation of debts already overdue or for conduct prior to the approval of the law.
“We understand that the pandemic has exacerbated the difficult situation of rural producers with financial pending with Ibama, who received unrealistic fines and face unpayable charges, which make producers in good faith hostage to an unsustainable situation, without the possibility of paying off their pending issues. financial and, on the other hand, without conditions of access to rural credit, a fundamental instrument for agricultural production”, said the rapporteur, in the justification of the project.
Such as Sheet showed, according to the IBAMA system, there were 8,333 infraction notices in 2020, totaling R$ 2,147,917,726.42 in fines. Pará, where the highest rates of deforestation in the Amazon are located, concentrates the largest amount of dammed infraction notices: 294 with values ​​above R$ 200 thousand.
Pacheco, president of the Senate, promised in March to former ministers of the Environment, artists and environmentalists that the processing of the projects of the package of “boiadinhas” would not be run over and that there would be “very active participation of the Committees on Agriculture and the Environment “.
In practice, at least eight bills, with greater or lesser environmental impact, were approved by the Senate or are targets for articulation to advance, largely without an extensive analysis of their content.
