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

This policy brief by the Climate Policy Initiative (CPI) and NAPC/PUC-Rio analyzes the obstacles preventing the effective conversion of environmental fines into environmental services in Brazil. It identifies a regulatory vacuum at the federal level and legal contradictions in the Forest Code that hinder the implementation of this instrument, and proposes recommendations for new federal regulations to increase the effectiveness of environmental recovery.

• The conversion of environmental fines into services is an underutilized tool in Brazil. An analysis of 11,800 citations by Ibama for flora infractions in the Amazon region between 2008 and 2013 indicates that the mechanism is not being applied.
• There is a significant regulatory vacuum regarding the procedure for converting federal fines. While general rules exist in Law 9.605/1998 and Decree 6.514/2008, the revocation of IN Ibama 14/2009 by IN Ibama 10/2012 removed the detailed procedural rules, effectively making the benefit impossible to implement in practice.
• Several legal controversies exist regarding Decree 6.514/2008, including whether recovering damage from the original 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 hindered by a limited list of eligible environmental services and a lack of trained technical staff at Ibama. Technical staff also perceive conversion as a loss of revenue and fear disapproval from oversight bodies like the CGU and TCU.
• Article 42 of the Forest Code (Law 12.651/2012) contains a drafting error that makes the creation of its proposed fine conversion program legally impossible. It requires the fine to be based on Article 50 of Decree 6.514/2008, but also requires the vegetation suppression to have occurred before July 22, 2008; however, Decree 6.514/2008 only came into effect on July 23, 2008.
• To improve the instrument, the authors recommend establishing a new federal regulation (via decree or normative instruction) that defines the final fine value, the list of eligible services (including Environmental Reserve Quotas), deadlines for requests and decisions, and project approval guidelines.

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} }