The federal government published, this Tuesday (24), a decree that updates punishments against activities harmful to the environment, such as irregular deforestation or extraction of plant and animal products from conservation areas.
“Acquiring, intermediating, transporting or marketing a product or by-product of animal or plant origin produced in an area subject to irregular deforestation, located inside a conservation unit, after its creation” will lead to a fine of R$ 500 per kilogram or unit.
In addition, when the violation involves a change in the system for controlling the origin of forest products, the fine will be increased by R$300 “per unit, stere, kilo, meter of coal or cubic meter”.
If the crimes are committed or affect conservation units or their buffer zone – which separates the protected region from the non-conserved –, the value of the fines will be doubled. The exceptions will be cases in which “the determination of an increase in the value of the fine is greater than this or the cases in which the conservation unit constitutes an elementary of type”.
Consolidated fines, that is, in total, that do not exceed R$ 1,000 reais or, in the event of a fine per unit of measure, do not exceed the aforementioned amount, will be considered infractions “of less harm to the environment”.
Source: CNN Brasil
