Legal alerts

Brazilian Federal Environmental Protection Agency (IBAMA) has taken some measures towards procedural and administrative deadlines in the context of the COVID-19 pandemic. Sanctioning procedures: The deadlines for IBAMA’s administrative procedures are suspended for an undetermined period, beginning on March 16, 2020 (Ordinance No. 826/2020), covering both administrative defenses and appeals. All environmental conciliation hearings are also […]

On Friday, April 3rd, 2020, the Brazilian Senate approved the Bill of Law No. 1,179/2020, which postpones the entry into force of the General Data Protection Law (LGPD), currently scheduled to occur in August of this year. The Bill of Law regulates several legal impacts in Brazil during the national emergency declared in view of […]

Due to the recent economic crisis resulting from the coronavirus pandemic (Covid-19), several taxpayers are seeking to replace judicial deposits performed in labor and tax lawsuits with insurance guarantees and bank guarantees, in order to obtain a financial relief to honor payroll payments etc. Labor Aspects On March 27, the National Council of Justice (“CNJ”) […]

On April 2, 2020, the Ministry of Justice and Public Safety issued the Ordinance No. 156/2020 changing the rules for the operation of Customer Service (SACs) in the context of the COVID-19 pandemic. The Ordinance suspends, for the period of 60 (sixty) days, the general 60-second time limit from the beginning of a call to […]

The Environmental Protection Agency of the State of São Paulo (CETESB), through its Directory Board, has suspended administrative procedure deadlines from March 16 to April 30, 2020. The suspension covers the following situations: (i) submission of compliance with environmental constraints and notifications into licensing procedures; (ii) submission of administrative defenses and appeals, besides other complementary documents, into sanctioning procedures; (iii) compliance with […]

Due to the Covid-19 pandemic, the Brazilian Internal Revenue Service postponed the deadline for submission of the Annual Income Tax Return for individuals, regarding calendar year 2019, to June 30 2020, according to Normative Instruction 1,930 of April 1, 2020. The Normative Instruction also provides for the extension of the date for automatic debit payment, […]

Yesterday, April 1, 2020, the Government enacted Executive Order no. 936 to implement the Emergency Employment and Income Preservation Benefit (Emergency Benefit) to guarantee employee jobs and income and also regulate additional labor measures for dealing with the state of public calamity and international public health emergency due to the coronavirus (COVID-19). The purpose of […]

The Legislative Assembly of the state of Rio de Janeiro (Alerj) approved, by 42 votes in favor and five against, legislative decree #30/20, suspending the effects of Executive Decree #46.944/20, published last Tuesday. Alerj justified the suspension on the basis that the granting of incentives for thermoelectric generation should have been done through law and […]

Today the National Consumer Secretariat (“SENACON”) issued the Ordinance No. 15/2020, which determines that the following cmpanies shall proceed with the registration of companies on the platform consumidor.gov.brwithin 30 (thirty) days:  Companies with national or regional operations in sectors that involve public services and essential activities, according to the definitions provided by the Federal Decree No. […]