TRF accepts appeal and decision that made the protection of the mangroves back in force



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Federal judge Marcelo Pereira da Silva, of the TRF-2 (Federal Regional Court of Region II), today accepted an appeal filed by the federal government and validated the repeal of the environmental protection law in mangrove areas and you subtract.

“The hypothesis claims the predominance of the already established institutional and democratic legitimacy of the Forest Code, which served as the basis for the revocation of Resolutions 302 and 303 of CONAMA, a normative diploma that resulted from more than ten years of discussions during which, according to consists In charge of the Honorable Minister Luiz Fux, more than 70 public hearings were held ‘to qualify the social debate around the main changes related to the regulatory framework for the protection of the native flora and vegetation of Brazil’, justified the judge in the car.

On Tuesday (29), Judge Maria Amélia Almeida Senos de Carvalho, of the 23rd Federal Court of Rio de Janeiro, had accepted a popular action filed by lawyers Juliana Cruz Teixeira da Silva, Leonardo Nicolau Passos Marinho, Renata Miranda Porto and Rodrigo da Silva Roma against Unión and Salles and suspended Conama’s decision.

They argued that the repeal of resolutions 302 and 303, both of 2002, “violates the constitutional right to an ecologically balanced environment”, guaranteed in article 225 of the Constitution, as well as the National Environmental Policy established in the law 6.938 / 81. and the Forest Code (law No. 12.651 / 12).

Minister Rosa Weber, of the STF (Supreme Federal Court), gave 48 hours yesterday for the Minister of the Environment, Ricardo Salles, explain the repeal of two resolutions of the Conama (National Environmental Council) that delimited the permanent protection areas of mangroves and the rest of the Brazilian coastline.

Yesterday, AGU (Advocacia-Geral da União) determined that “it is not possible to conclude” that the increase in deforestation in Brazil is related to actions of the Minister of the Environment, Ricardo Salles. The demonstration was in response to an appeal from the Federal Public Ministry, which considered that the minister committed “various acts” that point in a direction contrary to the “constitutional environmental project.”

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