Brazil’s east-central state of Minas Gerais has enacted a law that streamlines environmental licensing by decentralizing the authority to grant licenses and simplifying the process.
The new law (No 21,972/2016), which took effect Feb. 20, revises a 1980 law by allowing the state’s environmental secretariat (Semad) to grant licenses for projects with low-to-medium impacts.
The original law required the Minas Gerais environmental council (Copam) to grant licenses. Copam will continue to grant environmental licenses for projects with significant impacts.
The new law also allows developers of low-impact projects to electronically submit license requests via a simplified process, in which only ...
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