Senate President said voting should be held next week, probably on October 16
The President of the Senate, (União Brasil-AP), announced on Tuesday (7.out.2025) that a joint session of the National Congress will be held next week, probably on October 16, for the analysis of 2 items: O (Budgetary Guidelines Law) to 2026 and the Environmental Licensing Law (No. 15,190, 2025)-The President (PT) of the project that established the legislation.
To partly recompose the vetoed provisions, Lula (Provisional Measure) No. 1,308, 2025, and a PL (bill), with constitutional urgency.
The MP signed by Lula deals exclusively on the regulation of the so -called LAE (Special Environmental Licensing), with rules that aim to give the process agility.
- Here is the PLN (National Congress Bill) No. 2, 2025, of LDO (PDF – 403 KB);
- Here is that of PL No. 2,159, 2021, Environmental Licensing Bill approved by Congress (PDF – 774 KB)
- Here is that of Law No. 15,190, of 2025, of environmental licensing, with the vetoes of President Lula (PDF – 617 KB)
- Here is that of MP No. 1,308, of 2025, of the regulation of LAE (PDF – 235 KB).
“Today, the environmental agencies insist on resolutions, in ordinances, in regulations, in advice, which even end up dribbled by Brazilian law, imposing rules contrary to the law in force. So we need to give legal certainty to the productive sector of Brazil, which has been in this matter for decades“, He said alopau.
Veto
Among the vetoed devices is what provided for the possibility of LAE being performed with a single phase. This licensing modality could be triggered only for priority projects, with teams focused on speeding up licenses.
Also vetoed the possibility of simplified licensing for medium -potential polluting enterprises, which included the self -declaration licensing modality. With this, LAC (license for adhesion and commitment) is maintained only for works of low environmental impact.
The government also vetoed devices that transferred, “wide”, To the States and the Federal District the definition of parameters and criteria for licensing.
LDO
LDO defines how the following year budget must be prepared and executed. The rapporteur of the LDO project, the federal deputy (PSB-PB), has already presented his opinion.
The president of the CMO (Joint Budget Commission), Senator (União Brasil-PB), said that the bill will be voted on in this collegiate before the National Congress session.
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