The Competitive Brazil Movement (MBC), a civil society organization formed by 63 large companies, sent an official letter yesterday to the Ministry of Economy, denying that it had requested any kind of flexibility in the environmental legislation in the country. Among the companies that make up the movement are names like Itaú, JBS, Braskem and Google.
The day before, a group of 31 civil society organizations and networks had sent a letter to 50 presidents and directors of companies to demand a position on the Ministry of Economy’s proposal.
Report published by state on september 22 it revealed that the Ministry of Economy sent to the Ministry of the Environment (MMA) a series of proposals for changes in licensing rules, with the purpose of “transforming the country’s productivity and competitiveness”. Among the measures suggested were automatic issuance of environmental licenses when there was a delay in the analysis of requests and an increase in the area for removing vegetation from the Atlantic Forest without the need for a license from Ibama, in addition to the waiver of licensing to explore mining tailings.
The MMA forwarded the request and asked IBAMA to, by September 30, present a diagnosis of each item and what has been done to meet the request. Ibama, however, clarified that it cannot collaborate with the request. Days after the request, IBAMA declared that it could not even proceed with the request, because the “demands presented by the private sector” and compiled by the Secretariat for Development of Industry, Trade, Services and Innovation (SDIC) of the Economy “concern the actions government (public policies) that are not the responsibility of Ibama, the executing agency of the National Environment System”.
In the request that was rejected, the Ministry of Economy pointed out that its studies were carried out in partnership with the MBC, which concluded that “the additional transactional cost of undertaking in Brazil is of the order of R$ 1.5 trillion, equivalent to 22% of Brazil’s Gross Domestic Product (GDP) for the year 2019”. It so happens that the MBC reported not having made any request for environmental flexibility, but general notes.
In the letter to the Special Secretary for Productivity and Competitiveness of the Ministry of Economy, Carlos Alexandre Jorge Da Costa, author of the proposal to the MMA and Ibama, the companies say that “the claims mentioned in such official letter were not proposed by the MBC”.
“The MBC, at no time, developed any critical analysis in relation to the content contained in these claims”, says the document, adding that the movement believes that the reduction of the “Brazil cost” can contribute to the gain in competitiveness, but in a way sustainable and with respect for the environment.
“I don’t know where these proposals came from. That was a big misunderstanding. In our study, there is no item that deals with changes in rules on environmental preservation”, said the executive councilor of MBC, Rogério Caiuby, to Estadão. “That’s why we sent this letter to the Ministry of Economy, to clarify this situation and, also, so that they can clarify where it came from.”
Brazil cost
Through a note, the Ministry of Economy declared that the MBC’s partnership with the folder “was to map the size of the Brazil Cost – calculated at R$ 1.5 trillion for the year 2019, equivalent to 22% of the Product Gross Domestic (GDP) – and segregate it into twelve areas: opening a business; finance the business; employ human capital; have infrastructure; access basic inputs; act in an effective legal and regulatory environment; integrate with global supply chains; honor tributes; accessing public services; reinvent the business; compete and be challenged fairly; and resume or close the business”.
The ministry said that “it does not work in the environmental area” and that “the proposals presented by civil society were simply forwarded, in their entirety, without any merit assessment, to the MMA for analysis of its technical expert staff, as they are matters of MMA competence”. The information is from the newspaper The State of São Paulo.
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