The LDO (Budget Guidelines Law) of 2026, approved by the National Congress this Thursday (4), included a shield against the contingency of resources from regulatory agencies and rural insurance.
The text now goes to presidential sanction. According to reports made to CNN Brasil,
The budget of regulatory agencies and the PSR (Rural Insurance Premium Subsidy Program) entered the chapter of “expenses that will not be subject to commitment limitations”.
The coordination on regulatory bodies that met in November with the heads of the 12 federal agencies and had promised some type of protection to avoid a repeat of the budget collapse that occurred in 2025.
In the first half of this year, after the first contingency imposed by the economic team, a series of services and inspections carried out by the agencies had to simply be interrupted.
There was temporary suspension of the fuel quality monitoring program at ANP (oil and gas), reduction of inspection actions at Aneel (electric energy), interruption of certifications at Anac (civil aviation), among other problems caused by the contingency and later reversed.
In the case of rural insurance,
The PSR is a government program that subsidizes part of the cost of insurance contracted by producers to reduce the risk of crop failure and avoid debt renegotiations.
The government subsidizes between 20% and 40% of the total cost of the premium, depending on the type of crop and region. The rest is paid by the producer himself.
With budget cuts, the rural insurance coverage area was just 2.3% of the country’s agricultural production in the first half of the year. It was the lowest in 19 years, according to data from CNSeg (National Confederation of Insurance Companies).
