Legislation creates legal framework and offers mechanisms that facilitate the fight against forest fires and reconstruction of infrastructure destroyed by climate events
The interim president, (PSB), on Thursday (5.Jun.2025), a, which creates mechanisms to strengthen response to forest fires in the country.
The legislation creates a legal framework and offers mechanisms that facilitate forest fires and the reconstruction of infrastructure destroyed by climate events, giving more response conditions to states and municipalities.
Exceptional measures
In the event of a state of public calamity or the emergency situation declared by the Executive Power, there may be exceptional measures for loans or donations made to the Union or to the states to combat burning. The federal government may establish rules for the transfers and the inspection of values.
The standard, for example, dispenses with public or private financial institutions (such as banks) of the obligation to be regularly in the collection of labor and social security and social security obligations to be able to offer resources to the public power, reimbursable or not. Irregularities with the FGTS (Service Time Guarantee Fund) will only be disregarded if prior to May 2024.
Agreements
The text also allows transfers from the FNMA (National Environmental Fund) to states and municipalities without the need for previous agreements (such as agreements), provided that it is to meet regions with environmental emergency declared by the Ministry of Environment.
The agreement is a document that creates rules for the transfer of Union values to federated entities or NGOs, requiring work plan, deadlines and other formalities.
To this end, the entity to benefit from the fastest procedure must have approved a fire prevention and fighting plan. The money passed on will be able to finance prevention, preparation and fight against forest fires, including support for the affected or potentially affected fauna.
FNMA changes
The exemption from agreements will also apply to projects for protection and population management of dogs and cats in municipalities that have adhered to the National Program for Ethical Population Protection and Management of dogs and cats, implemented by the federal government. The inspection will be up to local control bodies, in addition to federal agencies.
For this, the new standard changes the law that created FNMA () to add, among its priority purposes:
- the rational and sustainable economic use of native flora and fauna;
- the recovery of areas degraded by accidents or environmental disasters;
- Prevention, preparation and fight against forest fires.
Until then, the FNMA prioritized only environmental conservation units, research and technological development, environmental education, forest management, environmental control and institutional development.
Veto
Alckmin vetoed a section that would exempt federal taxes (IRPJ, CSLL and PIS/COFINS) the Rio Doce Fund, created in 2025 to compensate the damage caused in 2015 by the rupture of the Fundão Dam in the city of Mariana (MG).
The fund, which is private and managed by BNDES, is the result of agreement approved by the Supreme Court (STF) and signed by the companies Samarco, Vale, and BHP Billiton and various public agencies, such as AGU (General Advocacy of the Union).
According to Alckmin, the new exemption would reduce federal revenue without presenting a measure of compensation or estimation of budgetary and financial impact, as required by the Fiscal Responsibility Law.
New Reconstruction Fund
The law still makes the infrastructure support fund definitive for recovery and adaptation to extreme climate events, managed by Caixa and which worked based on provisional measure. The fund has already received R $ 6.5 billion to finance works (such as dikes, channels, protection systems and drainage) in Rio Grande do Sul, hit by floods by 2024.
A Management Committee will define criteria and plans to apply money, both for the funds brought to help Rio Grande do Sul and for others that may be placed in the background, due to other situations of calamity in the country. The money can also be used to support infrastructure ventures related to mitigation and adaptation to climate change.
Foreign crew
The exemption from international agreement to hire crew in other countries is now permanent to work on airplanes in Brazil, in the case of fire fighting or emergency performance.
For this, the text changes the Brazilian Aeronautics Code. The provisional measure that predicted the ease has already lost its effectiveness and was originally edited to assist in fighting fires in the Pantanal, when the federal government found the insufficiency of large specialized aircraft in the country.
Brigade members
In addition, the law resumes the reduction of the minimum interval for brigade reward in fire fighting: the 2 -year deadline is reduced to 3 months. The measure has already been in force from July to November 2024, when, during the rise of forest fires, Ibama and the Chico Mendes Institute were prevented from rehiring about 600 brigade members because of the previous rule.
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