Senate approves MP 1.154/2023: Rural Environmental Registry and Conab’s competencies undergo changes

Provisional Measure 1.154/2023, which redefines the structure of Executive Branch ministries, was approved by the Federal Senate today (1/6), the last day of its validity. It had been approved yesterday (31/5), with changes, by the Chamber of Deputies.

Among the changes, the redefinition of the responsibilities of the Ministry of Environment and Climate Change (MMA) stands out. The management of the Rural Environmental Registry (CAR), at federal level, was transferred to the Ministry of Management and Innovation in Public Services.

The MMA maintains the administration of public forests granted for sustainable production. Responsibility for planted forests will be assigned to the Ministry of Agriculture, which will work together with the MMA.

Another significant change refers to the National Supply Company (Conab). Still linked to the Ministry of Agriculture and Livestock (Mapa), the company had some competencies, such as guaranteeing minimum prices and supplying and marketing family farming products, transferred to the Ministry of Agrarian Development.

The Ministry of Integration and Regional Development (MIDR) takes over the area of ​​water security, after a draft amendment by the Senate Board of Directors to include management of the National Water Resources Policy among its responsibilities.

With 51 votes in favor, 19 against and one abstention, the text maintained the 37 portfolios originally created by President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, although it changed the attributions of some of them.

The list of ministries was as follows:

• Agriculture and Livestock;

• Cities;

• Culture;

• Science, Technology and Innovation;

• communications;

• Defense;

• Agrarian Development and Family Farming;

• Integration and Regional Development;

• Development and Social Assistance, Family and Fight against Hunger;

• Human Rights and Citizenship;

• Farm;

• Education;

• Sport;

• Management and Innovation in Public Services;

• Racial equality;

• Development, Industry, Commerce and Services;

• Justice and Public Security;

• Environment and Climate Change;

• Mines and Energy;

• Women;

• Fisheries and Aquaculture;

• Planning and Budgeting;

• Ports and Airports;

• Indian people;

• Social Security;

• Foreign Relations;

• Health;

• Work and Employment;

• Transport;

• Tourism;

• Comptroller General of the Union.

The bodies with ministry status are the following:

• Civil House of the Presidency of the Republic;

• Secretariat for Institutional Relations of the Presidency;

• Secretary General of the Presidency;

• Secretariat of Social Communication;

• Institutional Security Office (GSI); It is

• Attorney General of the Union (AGU).