[Opinion] AGU opinions reject the prescription of environmental fines and allow the collection of R$ 29 billion

Federal government wants to collect R$ 29 billion in environmental fines

O governo vai insistir na cobrança judicial de R$ 29,1 bilhões em multas ambientais. A nova postura resulta da alteração de dois pareceres jurídicos da Advocacia-Geral da União (AGU), que tratam da prescrição da cobrança das sanções. Quando ocorre a prescrição, a União perde o direito de cobrar multas lavradas pelo Instituto Brasileiro do Meio Ambiente e Recursos Naturais Renováveis (Ibama). Pelo novo entendimento, a AGU passa agora a sustentar …

AGU guarantees the collection of R$ 29 billion in environmental fines barred under Bolsonaro

The opinion, signed by Jorge Messias, prevents 84% of the criminal records pending before IBAMA from being dismissed

Federal government wants to collect R$ 29 billion in environmental fines

Under Jair Bolsonaro's government, IBAMA decided to annul the penalties imposed because it considered the notification of violators by public notice to be an irregularity

AGU opinions reject the prescription of environmental fines and allow the collection of R$ 29 billion

In his decision, Jorge Messias argued that the Constitution assures everyone the fundamental right to an ecologically balanced environment