A gap left by the Government (PT) in changes made in the executive’s careers jeopardize the work of in Brazil.
Provisional Measure No. 1,286 was published on the last day of 2024 to restructure the organogram of a series of positions of the federal civil service. In practice, he created a vacuum within Incra (National Institute of Colonization and Agrarian Reform) and an overlap in his duties.
The measure revokes the attributions of inspection, evaluation and expertise of rural real estate and technical pronouncement, preparatory steps for land allocation and which serve to assess compliance or non -compliance with the social function of property.
The writing of the proposal does not relocate such tasks to anywhere else and says only that the functions of the new career will be defined in regulation.
A Sheet He talked, under reservation, with five people from the Ministry of Agrarian Development, of Incra or who act in roles related to the theme. All agree that, without this provision expressed in the text of the law, the work of the body loses legal support, is subject to questioning in court and more vulnerable to violence and attacks in the field.
The set of changes, according to them, empties the agency and creates legal insecurity, by lowering attributions to regulation, unlinking functions and creating a career dispute for the same activities.
Behind the scenes, servers mobilize to try to reverse the changes or adjust them in the processing by the National Congress.
Members of the Ministry of Agrarian Development and Incra claim that they were surprised by the revocation promoted by the Ministry of Management and that they knew only in the publication of the Provisional Measure, not in the debates that preceded it.
“[Foi deixado um] normative vacuum regarding the attributions […] Committing land regularization actions and the land reform program, “says in a statement sent to Congress to Condsef (Confederation of Federal Public Service Workers).
Asked by the report, the Ministry of Management stated that all changes were made by agreement.
“The new career position was created with more generic attributions for the purpose of covering other specialties and formations,” the folder said.
Incra said the current government resumed the inspection activities, as the department was responsible for in 2019 by the Jair Bolsonaro (PL) management. Since then, between 2023 and 2024, 262 such activities have been performed.
“Incra is analyzing the existence of a possible overlap. Anyway, the inspection work continues to happen normally,” said Incra.
One of the main flags of Lula’s first governments, agrarian reform became.
The (Landless Rural Workers Movement) holds until the 17th. The movement states that the liabilities of families waiting for a settlement increased from 60,000 in early 2023 to over 100,000 in 2025.
Already the government states that it had to rebuild the agrarian policy and promises that it will allocate 326 thousand families until the end of the current management.
“After [os governos] Dilma [Rousseff]Michel Temer and [Jair] Bolsonaro did nothing for land reform. Now we resume the levels of the governments Lula 1 and Lula 2, which are the best, “Minister Paulo Teixeira, Sheetat the beginning of April.
The ruralist bench, on the other hand, threatens to retaliate the movement and the government, also this month, advancing with the anti-MST agenda in Congress and reversing Lula’s acts of agrarian policy.
The provisional measure published in late 2024 by the Lula government creates, among other items, a new career in the civil service, that of a territorial federal expert, to replace the agrarian federal expert.
In this process, it revokes an entire article of the legal provisions of this action, precisely what provided for the realization of fundamental activities for land regularization.
Among them, “the survey, evaluation and expertise of rural real estate, with a view to verifying the fulfillment of the social function of the property, compensation of rural real estate and technical defense in administrative and judicial proceedings regarding the obtaining of rural real estate”.
Also disappeared the duties of issuing evaluations on alienation or “technical, economic and environmental viability” to alienation or obtaining land for land reform or land regularization.
It is through these activities, say technicians from the area, that irregular or non -productive lands are identified and could be destined for settlements, for example.
Without this forecast, they say, Incra’s servers could even follow the activities, but without legal support, which subject the whole process to be easily questioned and overthrown in court.
Behind the scenes, there is also a career dispute in Incra – now territorial experts try to gain space and expand their remuneration within the civil service.
This reflection is that this new position also accumulated functions of coordination, planning, implementation and guidance of territorial governance, which was already attribution of other chairs of the agency.
According to Condsef, there is a “shading” of the attributions. “This situation not only impairs the efficient distribution of work within Incra, but also generates conflict between servers and compromises the quality of technical analyzes,” says the Confederation.
While the old career was directly linked to Incra, the provisional measure detached the territorial expert of the organ, which enables its servers to have more space within functionalism and can perform their functions in other areas.
