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Vinicius Konchinski
Agency Brazil
São Paulo - The Federal Public Ministry (MPF) in São Paulo sent to the National Petroleum Agency (ANP) a recommendation that it immediately begin the process for defining the less polluting fuel to be used by vehicles in the country from 2012. The information in a notice sent today (12) to the press by MPF.
According to the MPF, a resolution of the National Environmental Council (Conama) have already established that, in 2012, the cars use a type of fuel less harmful to the environment and public health. The requirement is part of the sixth phase of the Program for the Control of Air Pollution by Motor Vehicles (Proconve), established in 1986.
For the automakers to bring their motor vehicles manufactured to the new fuel, it is necessary that the NPA set the properties of the new diesel and petrol. The MPF recommended that the agency do so as soon as possible.
In the press release, the MPF also reported that the prosecutor of the Republic Ana Cristina Lins, author of the recommendation sent to the ANP, which calls the process that determine the fuel is public, so that all concerned may be aware of it.
Lins is the same prosecutor who last year closed a deal with intermediate to ANP, assemblers, Petrobras and the Brazilian Institute of Environment (IBAMA) for the completion of the fifth phase of Proconve. At the time, manufacturers claimed that they could not produce cleaner cars for the delay of the NPA to define the fuel they would use from January.
The agreement closed with Lins, determined that the requirements of Proconve be fulfilled gradually so that all involved could be adapted.
This afternoon, the Agency sought to Brazil ANP for the Agency to comment on the action of MPF. Until the publication of this report, the body had not been pronounced. On the agreement last year, the MPF has been reported that he met by all its signatories.
Source: Agência Brasil
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