Senator Tereza Cristina states that there is a lack of political will to guide a session on the subject because “they know that the FPA will bring down”
The vice-president of the (parliamentary front of agriculture) in the Senate, (PP-MS) stated on Tuesday (26.2025) that the front articulates to overthrow the President (PT) to the bill () do. The congressman was the rapporteur of the text.
“We are working here and I hope you will soon be a session of Congress so that we can overthrow the vetoes. The law was built for a long time, many people, in the House and Senate. We made several meetings. The government left to the last minute, thought it was going to put its points and there would be no reaction.”said the former Minister of Agriculture to journalists after the weekly meeting of FPA, at the headquarters of (Confederation of Agriculture and Livestock of Brazil), in Brasilia.
Second Tereza Cristina, FPA has issues considered expensive and will not allow them to be vetoed by the Executive, such as transferring states in decisions on licensing issuance.
The senator said that the process is processed “Sleeping” At the National Congress because the base of the president (PT) in the House and Senate knows that the vetoes will be overthrown, which would be seen as another defeat of the executive.
“There is a lack of political will to put the agenda in Congress. They know that we will knock down, so [para a base governista] It is better to wait […] The government acts through provisional measures because there is only what is interested and what is no interest is asleep there ”he declared.
On June 17, the Lula Congress, such as the exemption of strokes (Investment Fund in Agribusiness Productive Chains) and the FIIs (real estate investment funds) in the tax reform and.
Presidential vetoes
Lula from what reformulates the environmental licensing rules in Brazil.
The government states that the vetoes followed 4 main guidelines:
- Ensure the integrity of the licensing process;
- ensure rights of indigenous and quilombola peoples;
- Give legal certainty to investors; and
- incorporate innovations without compromising the quality of environmental analysis.
MAIN VETTED POINTS LAC
- (License for adhesion and commitment): vetoed the expansion for medium impact activities. The simplified license is only down to impact, avoiding surface analysis in high risk cases such as dams;
- single -phase process at LAE: vetoed the rule that would allow to issue all licenses at once. The measure would require anticipation of spending by entrepreneurs before proof of environmental viability. The analysis is now done in at least 6 phases;
- licensing criteria: vetoed transfer to states and municipalities define criteria such as size, polluting potential and modalities of licenses without national standard;
- Conservation Units: vetoed the option to dispense with the analysis of the organs responsible for the protected areas;
- indigenous and quilombola peoples: vetoed restrictions on consultation with the protective bodies of these communities, ensuring participation including territories in recognition process by Funai and Palmares Foundation;
- CAR ANALYSIS (Rural Environmental Registry): vetoed license exemption for properties with car still pending analysis;
- responsibility of financial institutions: vetoed the device that reduced the responsibility of banks for environmental damage caused in projects they finance;
- Atlantic Forest: vetoed the removal of the special rules of the Atlantic Forest Law that protect native vegetation against deforestation.
