Incra widen criteria for land expropriation
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A "standard of performance" published by the federal government increases from one to four criteria to be used in expropriation of land for agrarian reform in the country. Now, the National Institute of Colonization and Agrarian Reform (INCRA) will evaluate not only the productivity of the area, as it is today, but if the owner complies with environmental and labor laws and also that the property meets the requirements of welfare their employees. Even without official figures, the Superintendent of INCRA in Parana, Claudia Sonda, said the measure expands the scope of expropriation in the state.
The measure, valid for the entire country, move directly to the Parana, where unproductive pockets, capable of expropriation, are increasingly rare. To date, 5% of the State of Paraná, equivalent to nine times the size of Curitiba, have been intended to reform. 4065 km2 these 19,510 families living in 311 settlements. And the state still needs to have more than 1.5% of their area to allocate the 6 thousand families in encampments awaiting the roadside or in occupied properties. Inspectors Incra are already authorized to use the new criteria in the controls.
Until then, considered only criteria of productivity, measured by degrees minimum 80% of land use and 100% efficiency in operation. But the criteria of "standard of performance", published yesterday in the Official Gazette, have yet to be defined by ministerial decrees. In the environmental case, involving the Ministries of Agrarian Development and the Environment. In principle, expropriation may be made only in cases of environmental crimes such as destruction of native forest, pollution of rivers, among other injuries, missing the administrative infractions.
The head of the Federal Attorney Specialized Incra Parana, Josely Trevisan Massuquetto, said the government's move brings no novelty, as the social function of property - and their four criteria - set in 1988 in Article 186 of the Constitution. These criteria could already being applied without this "rule enforcement", but she gets more an administrative legitimacy. "There is a mistaken view of those who think that the property only needs to be productive. It has to be productive, to comply with environmental laws and labor and a contributor to social welfare, "says Josely.
Long before that standard, the INCRA had already entered the Justice's actions to expropriate land in Santa Catarina and Minas Gerais in the first case of environmental crime and second, for breach of social welfare due to the murder of five workers cottages within the farm in 2006. The processes are in final processing. With the new standard, Incra need to rely, for example, with reports from IBAMA for environmental issues, the Ministry of Labor for labor.
Reviews
The Rural Democratic Union and the Brazilian Rural Society say they consider the measure "unfair" to give superpowers to INCRA. The interim president of the Rural Society of Paraná (SRP), Fernando Prochet considered inappropriate to the time of issue of the measure by the government, just when discussing changes in the Brazilian Forestry Code. He said the SRP is mindful of the need for innovation and has invited organizations such as WWF and SOS Mata Atlantica, and politicians like the Minister Reinhold Stephanes, to discuss issues related to the environment and agricultural production. "The farmer is the greatest defender of the environment, and suddenly it publishes a measure without considering that the producer has to say," he criticizes.
Source: Gazeta do Povo
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