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Alexandre Salomão Jabra

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Alexandre Salomão Jabra joined the firm in 2010. He integrates the environmental, consumer and sustainability practice group, with focus on consultancies, administrative procedures lawsuits and negotiations. In the environmental area, Alexandre has a wide breadth of experience in cases involving contamination, environmental and urbanistic licensing procedures, environmental liability, management of solid wastes and take-back requirements, effluents, electromagnet pollution, air emissions, forestry matters, protected areas and minorities, biodiversity, controlled chemicals products, socio and environmental liability of financial institutions, climate change, carbon markets and urbanistic regularization. In the consumer area, Alexandre has experience with consultations, administrative and judicial procedures related to Consumer Law issues with federal, state and municipal agencies, such as DPDC, PROCONs, Public Prosecutors and Municipalities involving recall, offers, data protection, misleading and abusive advertising, privacy, e-commerce, abusive clauses, commercial practices, terms and conditions and violations to the Brazilian Consumer Defense Code. Alexandre represents several clients in the oil&gas, automotive, chemicals, technology, food, communications, mining, finance and services sectors.
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Brazil: SENACON and ANPD sign technical cooperation agreement to protect consumer data

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In brief On 22 March 2021, the National Consumer Secretariat (SENACON) and the National Authority of Data Protection (ANPD) executed a technical cooperation agreement to speed up the inspection and investigation of security incidents involving consumer data. One of the main goals of the agreement is to standardize the actions…

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Brazil: Environmental Ministry details the implementation of the Forest+ Carbon program and discloses the Brazilian Government position on negotiations regarding the Paris Agreement

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On 5 April 2021, the Secretariat of the Amazon and Environmental Services of the Environmental Ministry (MMA) enacted Technical Note No. 353/2021. The Technical Note elaborates on the implementation of the Forest+ Carbon program and discloses the Brazilian government position regarding the implementation of Article 6 of the Paris Agreement, which addresses market instruments aimed at reducing greenhouse gas emissions. 

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Brazil: National Policy of Payments for Environmental Services is implemented

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On 14 January 2021, Federal Law No. 14.119/2021 was published to establish the National Policy of Payments for Environmental Services (PNPSA), which aims to encourage the preservation of ecosystems, water resources, soil, biodiversity, genetic heritage and associated traditional knowledge, valuing ecosystem services economically, socially and culturally. The law is already in force.

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Brazil: IBAMA and ICMBio update guidelines and criteria related to the environment conciliation phase of administrative procedures

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On November 30, 2020, Ordinance No. 589/2020 was published to update guidelines and criteria applicable to the environmental conciliation phase of IBAMA and ICMBio’s administrative procedures, while lasts the public health emergency situation caused by the pandemic of coronavirus (Covid-19).

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Brazil: Law that establishes the take-back requirements for products and their packaging comes into force in the Brazilian State of Maranhão

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State Law No. 11,326/2020 came into force on November 22, 2020, establishing the obligation for producers, importers, distributors and sellers to implement the take-back system of several post-consumption products and their packaging sold in the Brazilian State of Maranhão.