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05/11/2012
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Resolution which comes into force today raises ceiling of fines for serious damage in up to a thousand fold, from R$ 20 thousand to R$ 20 million
SAO PAULO - Standard published in the Official Gazette on Thursday can raise up to one thousand times the amounts of fines for violations that cause serious harm to users. The new values will reach R$ 20 million per violation. Before, ANAC (National Civil Aviation Agency) provided fines of up to R$ 20,000.
According to ANAC, cases of serious harm to users are critical situations with great impact on air network, the responsibility of the company or other agent of the sector, resulting in a large number of passengers without proper assistance.
"We expect to increase our ability to deter violations which cause great inconvenience to the people and ensure passengers a rising level of quality Brazilian civil aviation," ANAC reported in a press release.
With this, the agency expects to increase its capacity to restrain violations causing great inconvenience to the people and ensure passengers a rising level of quality Brazilian civil aviation.
According to the resolution nº 253 published in the Official Gazette, "the criteria used to define the amount of the fine is the severity of the violation, the economic condition of the offender and / or his background."
Source: ANAC
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