RESUMO PARA POLÍTICA PÚBLICA CONVERSÃO DE MULTAS AMBIENTAIS EM PRESTAÇÃO DE SERVIÇOS AMBIENTAIS

The policy brief identifies a 'normative vacuum' and legal inconsistencies that hinder the conversion of environmental fines into preservation and recovery services in Brazil. It highlights that while Decree 6.514/2008 allows for such conversion, a lack of procedural rules and technical capacity at Ibama prevents its application. The authors specifically argue that Article 42 of the 2012 Forest Code contains a drafting error that makes its fine conversion program legally impossible to implement as written.

• Analysis of 11,800 Ibama citations for flora infractions in the Amazon region between 2008 and 2013 indicates that the mechanism for converting fines into environmental services is not being applied.
• A significant 'normative vacuum' exists at the federal level because IN Ibama 10/2012 revoked the detailed procedures of IN Ibama 14/2009 without establishing a replacement, leaving only general rules in Law 9.605/1998 and Decree 6.514/2008.
• There are three primary legal controversies regarding Decree 6.514/2008: whether recovering damage from the same infraction violates the 'triple environmental responsibility' (civil, penal, and administrative), whether the 40% discount allows for total substitution of the fine without residual cash payment, and whether requesting conversion during the defense constitutes a confession of guilt.
• The implementation of fine conversion is further hindered by a limited list of eligible environmental services and a lack of trained technical staff at Ibama, who may fear that conversions represent a loss of revenue or could be disapproved by the CGU or TCU.
• Article 42 of the 2012 Forest Code contains a drafting error that makes the creation of its fine conversion program practically impossible because it requires the fine to be based on Article 50 of Decree 6.514/2008, but also requires the deforestation to have occurred before July 22, 2008 (the date before that decree existed).

APA

Chiavari, J., & Lopes, C. L. (2017). RESUMO PARA POLÍTICA PÚBLICA CONVERSÃO DE MULTAS AMBIENTAIS EM PRESTAÇÃO DE SERVIÇOS AMBIENTAIS. Climate Policy Initiative. https://www.climatepolicyinitiative.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/04/Resumo_Conversao_Multas_CPI_Final-1.pdf

Chicago

Chiavari, Joana, and Cristina Leme Lopes. RESUMO PARA POLÍTICA PÚBLICA CONVERSÃO DE MULTAS AMBIENTAIS EM PRESTAÇÃO DE SERVIÇOS AMBIENTAIS. Climate Policy Initiative, 2017. https://www.climatepolicyinitiative.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/04/Resumo_Conversao_Multas_CPI_Final-1.pdf.

Wikipedia

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BibTeX

@techreport{chiavari2017resumo, author = {Chiavari, Joana and Lopes, Cristina Leme}, title = {{RESUMO PARA POLÍTICA PÚBLICA CONVERSÃO DE MULTAS AMBIENTAIS EM PRESTAÇÃO DE SERVIÇOS AMBIENTAIS}}, institution = {Climate Policy Initiative}, year = {2017}, month = feb, url = {https://www.climatepolicyinitiative.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/04/Resumo_Conversao_Multas_CPI_Final-1.pdf}, urldate = {2026-08-17}, note = {Indexed by Climate Insights Directory} }