National Environment Council (CONAMA)
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Collegiate consultative and deliberative body for implementation of the National Environmental Policy (PNMA), establishing norms and criteria for the licensing of polluting or potentially polluting activities, to be granted by the various levels of government (federal, state, municipal).
Decide at the final administrative level on fines and other penalties imposed by IBAMA
Determine, through representation of IBAMA, the loss or restriction of tax relief granted by the Government, in general or conditional character, and the loss or suspension of participation in credit lines in official credit establishments
Establish standards, criteria and standards relating to the control and maintenance of the quality of the environment, with a view to the rational use of environmental resources, especially water, as well as establishing the technical criteria for the declaration of areas that critical, saturated or being overrun
Establish systematic monitoring, evaluation and enforcement of environmental standards
Encourage the creation, structuring and institutional strengthening of state and municipal environment councils for management of environmental resources and watershed committees
Regularly evaluate the implementation and enforcement of environmental policy and standards, establishing systems of indicators
Develop, approve and monitor the implementation of the National Agenda for the Environment, to be proposed to the agencies and organizations involved in SISNAMA, in the form of recommendations
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Support for the creation of methodological guidelines on combating desertification
Formulation of resolutions, regulations and/or recommendations on best SLM practices, licensing procedures and changes in land use related to rural development on an environmentally sustainable basis
Support the development of related studies about SLM and PES in partnership with NCCD
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