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22/05/2013
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Carolina Gonçalves
Brazil Agency reporter
Brasília - Representatives of non-governmental organizations (NGOs) will monitor, as of today (21), regulation and implementation of the Forest Code in the country. The group also intends to evaluate the performance of the states in implementing the new law, passed last year. The monitoring policy will be made from an observatory that was presented today (21), in Brasília, by experts at the Institute for Environmental Research in Amazonia (IPAM), WWF-Brazil, SOS Mata Atlântica, the Institute of Living Center (ICV) and the Socio-Environmental Institute (ISA), among other organizations.
"Effective implementation of the law with guarantees of progress will only occur if you have an informed society mobilization. Without it we can not ensure that the Rural Environmental Registry [CAR] and the Programme for the Environment [PRA] are not just a greenwash, "explained André Lima, attorney IPAM.
According to Lima, the tool will be available to anyone interested in monitoring the implementation of the code. He explained to the members of the Environment Committee of the House of Representatives that the observatory was created to identify more clearly which are the difficulties in making the law practice and try to identify solutions to problems.
"We have some bottlenecks observed today. Insufficient human resources in state and local environmental agencies. The federal government does not have to register and monitor all properties. That will have to be decentralized and the technology used today already shows that will bring problems in the future by the limitations of the resolution of cartographic images, "he said.
Members of non-governmental organization The Nature Conservancy (TNC) said that the experience accumulated over eight years by NGOs can contribute to the goal of registration of rural properties. Suelma Rosa, TNC's representative in Brazil, said the organization was the first to deploy the CAR on a large scale in the country. The design of the TNC is facing municipalities that make up the arc of deforestation in the Amazon, such as São Félix do Xingu (PA), Paragominas (PA), Lucas Rio Verde (MT) and cities in western Bahia.
'It is better that the government take more time to better prepare for this implementation than promoting a skirt without CAR proposal. Registration is the means and not the end for the implementation of an environmental remediation project, "he said, noting that without the basic elements of evaluation on the actual size of areas and how much it takes to recover, the CAR will not fulfill its function.
NGOs, who forwarded a letter to the Minister of Environment, Izabella Teixeira, highlighting the interest in participating in the process, emphasized that the Centre will not be used as a political platform. According to the group, the function will be to collect, organize and analyze information. Besides pointing indicators that show how is the implementation of the CAR and the PRA in all regions of the country, the group wants to identify, in the states, the difficulties of regulation and enforcement of the new Forest Code.
Throughout the day, the group was meeting in a seminar balance on the measures that have been adopted to date. Figures released by the organizations, no state has adopted the Programme for the Environment, about 4.5 million farms still need to be recorded in the Rural Environmental Registry and Article 41, which provides economic incentives for rural properties that do not illegally deforested, still not regulated.
The deadlines have not yet expired and the government signaled that the regulations are in the final stages of completion. During the event, the Minister Benjamin Herman, the Superior Court of Justice, said the law was passed with much controversy and division positions and now we need the authorities to turn to the implementation of the rules for the lack of a regulatory does not bump into other decisions, such as that the court will have to take now for producers exempted from Rural Land Tax (ITR).
The Forest Code has been in force since the day May 25, 2012, after a controversial procedure that split positions in Congress and provoked criticism from several farmers and environmentalists.
Editing: Fabio Massalli
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