Brazil: Vegetation Suppression Authorizations (ASV) gain new rules

23 Sept 2025    2 minute read
Authorization for Suppression of Vegetation Rural Environmental Registry Environmental Regulation

In brief

CONAMA Resolution No. 510/2025 has been published, setting out the technical criteria, conditions of validity, transparency, integration and publicity of information related to the issuance of native vegetation suppression authorizations on rural properties.

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On 16 September 2025, the National Environment Council (CONAMA) Resolution No. 510/2025 was published, establishing technical criteria, validity conditions, active transparency requirements, integration and publicity of data and information related to the issuance of native ASVs on rural properties, as well as the responsibilities of the competent environmental agencies.

Highlights of the new standard:

  1. Does not apply to cases of authorization for forest exploitation through sustainable forest management plans or for controlled or prescribed burning on the property.
  2. Provides for exemption from ASV for the clearing of fallow rural areas, intended for alternative land use for agricultural, livestock or forestry activities or uses, whose use has been interrupted for up to five years, provided that the established requirements are met.
  3. As a rule, the issuance of the ASV is conditional on the property being duly registered in the Rural Environmental Registry (CAR).
  4. Prohibits the issuance of the ASV (a) in areas linked to the Environmental Reserve Quota title; (b) in rural properties whose registration in the CAR is suspended or canceled; and (c) in rural properties whose registration in the National Rural Registration System (SNCR) is not active.
  5. Conditions the issuance of native ASVs by a municipal environmental agency or public consortium of municipalities to interventions with a local environmental impact that directly affect the territory of the respective municipality, located or developed in an urban area or area of consolidated urban expansion, as well as the cumulative observance of specific conditions (proof of technical capacity, existence of a municipal environmental council or equivalent collegiate body and availability of the authorizing act in the National System for the Origin of Forest Products - Sinaflor).

The Resolution will come into force 180 days after the date of its publication.

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