Environmental licensing bill set for a vote in the Lower House, and more testimony in the Covid CPI in the Senate

BRAZIL POLITICS - Report 11 May 2021 by Murillo de Aragão and Cristiano Noronha

​Today, the Lower House votes on a bill that deals with environmental licensing, which is especially important for the infrastructure sector. The bill defines the rules businesses must follow when conducting environmental projects, for example, deadlines, environmental impact studies, analysis priorities and validity. It is a controversial bill and there should be a long voting process ahead, as it only requires a simple majority of votes to be approved. In the Senate, the president of the Brazilian Health Regulatory Agency (Anvisa), Antonio Barra Torres, is set to testify in the COVID Parliamentary Committee of Inquiry (CPI) today.

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