Bill demands that countries adopt the same environmental care that is demanded of Brazil

Senator Zequinha Marinho (PL-AP) presented a bill for Brazil to charge reciprocity from nations that pressure it for environmental care.

The text determines that countries and blocs that want to sell to the national market must meet the same requirements they make to Brazilian producers.

The proposal for reciprocity in environmental issues was filed on Monday, 24.

“Brazil, despite having the strictest environmental laws in the world, manages to make efficient rural production compatible with sustainability,” he wrote in the justification.

“This is one of the main reasons Brazilian agriculture increasingly suffers from the attribution of false narratives.”

According to the senator, “the difficulty of competing with the level of Brazilian production has pressured governments and rulers of foreign agricultural sectors to try to tarnish the image and efficiency of the Brazilian rural producer through demagogic narratives.”

According to the congressman, these actions aim to use environmental issues to impose more costs on Brazilian agribusiness.

In this way, pressure from other countries serves to “guarantee competitiveness to foreign agricultural products”, he declared.

One of the examples cited by the senator is the difference between speech and practice in the European Union.

ENVIRONMENTAL CARE IN EUROPE

“In Europe, we see the continuity of environmental depredation, despite the agroecological discourse,” he wrote.

“There, agricultural cultivation was liberated even in areas of environmental preservation of rural properties, until then limited to only 5% of the rural property, exempting small producers from the obligation (while in Brazil, this percentage varies between 20% and 80%).”

“In the ‘Old World, ‘ the compulsory distance between crops and water courses was also made more flexible (2 meters wide along the river banks), while in Brazil, this range is 30 to 500 meters.”

A few days before Zequinha Marinho presented the proposal for reciprocity in issues involving environmental care, the European Parliament approved a project that restricts the exportation of deforestation areas, regardless of whether it occurs within legal criteria.

With information from Revista Oeste