Medida provisória recompensa atividades criminosas

This technical note by the Climate Policy Initiative (CPI) and PUC-Rio analyzes Provisional Measure (MP) 910/2019, which modifies Law 11.952/2009 regarding the land regularization of federal public lands in Brazil. The authors argue that the MP rewards criminal activities such as land grabbing (grilagem) and illegal deforestation by expanding the spatial and temporal scopes for regularization and simplifying the process through self-declaration, thereby benefiting large landowners over traditional communities and family farmers.

• MP 910/2019 introduces three critical changes to Law 11.952/2009: it expands the spatial scope of the law to all national territory, extends the temporal deadline for land regularization, and broadens the simplified self-declaration procedure.
• The MP expands the spatial application of land regularization from the Legal Amazon to all federal public lands or lands belonging to the National Institute for Colonization and Agrarian Reform (Incra) across Brazil. This allows for the regularization of areas up to 2,500 hectares without public bidding and at prices below market value, potentially causing significant revenue losses for the treasury.
• The temporal framework for regularization is extended to occupations occurring before May 5, 2014, as a general rule. Specifically in the Legal Amazon, occupations prior to December 10, 2018, can be regularized without public bidding. The authors argue this decouples land regularization from the environmental regularization deadline of July 22, 2008, set by the Forest Code.
• The simplified regularization process via self-declaration is expanded from 4 to 15 fiscal modules. This allows occupants to regularize land without a prior on-site inspection by Incra, relying instead on georeferenced maps, the Rural Environmental Registry (CAR), and personal declarations.
• The MP is criticized for legitimizing criminal activities, specifically land grabbing and illegal deforestation. By granting amnesty to more recent illegal occupations, the government signals that invading and deforesting public forests is profitable.
• The proposed changes disproportionately benefit medium and large rural producers while disadvantaging family farmers, indigenous peoples, and traditional communities. The authors note that the process for demarcating indigenous lands is far more complex and bureaucratic than the simplified self-declaration process offered by MP 910/2019.
• The document identifies future risks if the MP is approved, including the potential for the Forest Code to be weakened to align its temporal markers with those of land regularization and the possibility that Brazilian states will revise their own land laws to mirror the federal changes.

APA

Chiavari, J., & Lopes, C. L. (2020). Medida provisória recompensa atividades criminosas. Climate Policy Initiative. https://www.climatepolicyinitiative.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/NT-MP-910.pdf

Chicago

Chiavari, Joana, and Cristina Leme Lopes. Medida provisória recompensa atividades criminosas. Climate Policy Initiative, 2020. https://www.climatepolicyinitiative.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/NT-MP-910.pdf.

Wikipedia

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BibTeX

@techreport{chiavari2020medida, author = {Chiavari, Joana and Lopes, Cristina Leme}, title = {{Medida provisória recompensa atividades criminosas}}, institution = {Climate Policy Initiative}, year = {2020}, month = feb, url = {https://www.climatepolicyinitiative.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/NT-MP-910.pdf}, urldate = {2026-08-17}, note = {Indexed by Climate Insights Directory} }