Brazilian Agency Updates Requirements To Register Potentially Polluting Activities

RIO DE JANEIRO—The enforcement arm of Brazil’s Environment Ministry (IBAMA) recently issued two measures which update requirements to register activities that are potentially polluting or use natural resources or activities linked to environmental protection, an IBAMA official told BNA.

A 1981 federal law (No. 6,938) requires individuals and companies to register activities that are potentially polluting or that use natural resources (CTF/APP activities) and requires individuals and companies to register activities linked to environmental protection (CTF/AIDA activities). CTF/APP and CTF/AIDA are Portuguese acronyms that can be translated as the Technical Federal Registry of Potentially Polluting Activities and Those that Use ...