THE NEW ENVIRONMENTAL LICENSING IN BRASIL

Abstract

Federal Law No. 6,938/198, the Environmental Impact Assessment (EIA), and the Environmental Impact Report (RIMA) are fundamental Brazilian landmarks that provide for environmental licensing as a strategy to ensure prevention through precaution, social participation, and ecological balance. The processing of a Bill (PL 2,159/2021) in the National Congress, the sanction with vetoes by the President of the Republic (Law No. 15,190/2025), and the enactment of a Provisional Measure (No. 1,308/2025) introduced new types of environmental licensing, measures criticized by environmentalists for highlighting the risk of environmental setbacks and applauded by developmentalists due to the alleged bureaucratization of previous procedures. The research was dedicated to carrying out the analysis of the aforementioned types of laws and to projecting possible scenarios of collision of legal norms, the resolution criteria provided for in the Law of Introduction to the Norms of Brazilian Law (LINDB) and future perspectives