Institutional scale
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Government Council |
To assist the President of Republic in the national policy formulation and in the govemmental guidelines for the environment and enviromnental resources |
Environment Ministry/National Environment Council
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To formulate the national environmental policy and to define the policies and regulations regarding recovery, conservation, ordinance, use, handling, and improvement of the environment and natural resources |
Highest body |
National Enviromnent Council (CONAMA) |
To assist, to study and to propose, to the Government Council, govemmental policies guidelines for the environment and natural resources, and to deliberate, in its competence scope, about compatible pattems and rules to the ecologically balanced environment, essential to healthy quality of life. |
Environment Ministry |
To regulate the general conditions for environment sanitation and the use, handling, improvement, conservation, restoration and recovery of natural resources, in order to prevent, restrain, eliminate or mitigate the polluting, deteriorating or destmctive activities impact of the surroundings, and to define the execution of programs and projects for this purpose. |
Consultative and deliberative body |
Environment Ministry |
To plan, to coordinate, to oversee and to control, as a federal body, the national policy and the govemmental guidelines set for environment. |
Environment Ministry |
To plan, to coordinate, to oversee and to control, including in a inter-sectoral and inter-institutional way, as a central body, the national policy and the govemmental guidelines set for the environment. |
Central body |
Brazilian Institute of Environment and Renewable Natural Resources (IBAMA) |
To execute and to enforce, as a federal body, the policy and the govemmental guidelines set for the environment. |
Regional Autonomous Corporations/Environment Ministry (in some cases) |
To execute the policies, plans, programs and rules outlined bythe Environment Ministry, including the administration, sustainable use, improvement, protection, vigilance and control of renewable natural resources / To adminis- ter the National Natural Parks System and to grant the environmental licenses for the implementation of dams and barrages with a volume greater than 200 millions of cubic meters, irrigation systems of more than 20 thousand hectares and transfers with outflows greater than 2 cubic meters per second. |
Executive body |
State entities or bodies |
To execute programs and projects and to control and to oversee the activities that can provoke environmental degradation. To establish environmental policies in harmony with the federal legislation. |
Regional Autonomous Corporations/Departments |
It is responsibility of the Corporations the execution of policies, plans, programs and mies outlined by the Environment Ministry, including the administration, sustainable use, improvement, protection, vigilance and control of renewable natural resources. It is responsibility of the Departments the promotion and execution of national, regional and sectoral programs and policies related to natural resources and environment; to perform, in coordination with other SINA entities and subjectto legal distribution of renewable natural resources and environmental functions of control and vigilance, and competences |
Sectional bodies |
Municipal entities or bodies |
To control and to oversee the activities that can provoke environmental degradation. To establish environmental policies in harmony with the federal and state legislation. |
Municipal entities or bodies |
To promote and execute national, regional and sectoral policies and programs related to renewable natural resources and environment; to elaborate municipal environmental projects, programs and plans articulated to national, departmental and regional projects, programs and plans; to control and to perform the vigilance over the environment and renewable environmental resources aiming to watch for the fulfillment of State duties. |