CAR and public policy

The audience is also available in audio and video .municipal and state associations of environmental argued at a public hearing of the Environmental Commission and Sustainable Development of the House of Representatives on Tuesday (10), the Rural Environmental Registration (CAR) as a political instrument to encourage economic and social development sustainable country.

The CAR is a mandatory electronic record for all rural properties in order to integrate environmental information of farms and build a database for control, monitoring and environmental and economic planning. This supervision will be exercised by federal and state environmental agencies. The CAR was set up by the new Forest Code (Law  12,651 / 12 ) and is the landowner ‘s responsibility. Signing up is still in testing phase and will begin to be made effective from January 2014.

The president of the National Association of Municipal environmental agencies (ANAMMA), Pedro Wilson Guimarães, the CAR will allow to obtain better information on rural properties and “controlling deforestation and burning, promote agro-ecological zoning, direct funding for better protection, rural production and productivity for our consumption and export. ”

Access to rural credit 
According to the president of ANAMMA, “this registration will bring improvements to degraded lands, suspension of sanctions, access to environmental rural credit and planning for properties, reserves, conservation areas, protected areas, waters, fauna and flora.”

Guimarães believes that membership is not just to punish or monitor deforested areas, but also to allow access to rural credit, “the Bank of Brazil, BNDES, the Caixa, Banco da Amazônia are investment instruments in public policies sustainable. With the Rural Environmental Registry, we will know whether a property can receive funding if this property will help sustainable or whether it will be predatory development “.

For the representative of the Brazilian Association of State Entities of the Environment (ABEMA) at the public hearing, Josemário Lucena da Silva, registration will allow access to a database that will serve as “necessary and effective tool to strengthen the urban monitoring and rural and meet the Brazilian environmental reality. ” He pointed out that for the first time, every society can follow online the real situation of deforestation in the country.

Inspection
Pedro Guimarães also said in the debate that membership is important for enforcement agencies are able to act in a “more effective, qualified and competent of sustainable public policies for all rural areas.”

For the special adviser to the Institute for Environmental Research in the Amazon (IPAM), André Lima, the CAR is an achievement of the new legislation, but there are still many challenges to be met. According to him, the owner, to placing the order, awaiting the evaluation of the regulatory agencies so that these bodies validate and confer the information provided at registration. “Only that this evaluation will only happen if the organs are prepared to do this monitoring with transparency and rigor.”

According to the representative of IPAM, are millions of rural properties to be registered in the country and state agencies are scrapped, under-staffed and poorly paid and servers unable to do such monitoring.

According to Lima, “the organs have to detect, for example, who deforested illegally force to recover, punish if necessary. And the states are not prepared for the volume that is the implementation of this law on a national scale. ”

According to Deputy Ricardo Tripoli (PSDB-SP), who chaired the hearing of the commission, the rural environmental registration is important because it improves the mechanisms of environmental management, but stressed that no funds from the federal government for the implementation of this database, It will become increasingly difficult to sustainable economic development.