On 20 August 2024, Head Resolution No. 0323-2024-ANA was published. Through it, the Regulation for the Granting of Authorizations for Discharge and Reuse of Treated Wastewater, approved by Head Resolution No. 224-2013-ANA, was amended. It aims to optimize the evaluation of the procedures for renewing authorizations to discharge and reuse treated wastewater.
On 2 August 2024, Bill No. 2308/2023, which establishes the legal framework for low-carbon hydrogen in Brazil, was approved with a partial veto. Numbered as Law 14948/2024, it has created the National Low-Carbon Hydrogen Policy, which will form part of the country’s National Energy Policy. The Law has also established the competence of the National Agency for Oil, Natural Gas and Biofuels to authorize, regulate and inspect activities in the low-carbon hydrogen value chain, and has created the Brazilian Hydrogen Certification System and the Special Incentive Regime for Low-Carbon Hydrogen Production, a tax regime designed to foster technological and industrial development, competitiveness and added value in national production chains.
On 30 July 2024, the National Consumer Secretariat published Technical Note No. 2/2024/Gab-DPDC/DPDC/SENACON/MJ, providing for the Ads Quality Criteria and Data Quality Criteria, as transparency parameters to be adopted and complied with by digital platforms in Brazil. The recent Technical Note established transparency criteria applicable to platforms, mentioning the need to comply with dignity, health, safety, protection and harmony within consumer relations.
The Brazilian Data Protection Authority (ANPD) published Resolution CD/ANPD No. 19, which creates the procedures and rules for recognizing the suitability of other countries or international bodies to carry out international personal data transfer operations, as well as approving the standard contractual clauses that may be used by processing agents to legitimize the international transfer of personal data.
The Brazilian Data Protection Authority (ANPD) has published Resolution CD/ANPD No. 18, which creates additional rules for the appointment of the Person in Charge (similar, although not equivalent, to the Data Protection Officer under the GDPR).
As background, according to Law No. 13.709/18 (Brazilian Data Protection Law (LGPD)), data controllers must appoint a Person in Charge. The “Person in Charge” has the primary role of serving as a communication liaison between the data controller, data subjects and ANPD, as well as providing training and guidance to the controller’s employees, and complying with any other instructions that controller may give.
Law No. 32102, an amendment to the Telework Law, has been published, incorporating rights and obligations for teleworkers, as well as modifications to the minimum content of telework agreements.
The Executive Power will adapt the Regulation of the Telework Law to these new rules within 90 calendar days.
INDECOPI has updated the four rankings related to the important work of eliminating bureaucratic barriers in 2023.
Some of the bureaucratic barriers identified in these rankings have been promoted by our study, such as the one that determined the illegality of suspending administrative procedures.
We highlight INDECOPI’s important work, through an easy-to-understand tool to know the efforts in administrative simplification and promotion of market development for both companies and entrepreneurs.
Federal Law No. 14.904/2024 was published. The law establishes guidelines for the preparation of climate change adaptation plans, with the aim of guiding the implementation of measures to reduce the vulnerability and exposure to risks of environmental, social, economic and infrastructure systems, in the face of the current and expected adverse effects of climate change.
On 26 July 2024, Supreme Decree No. 013-2024-EM was published, establishing a new exceptional and non-extendable deadline to submit the Detailed Environmental Plan and the Abandonment Plan, so that hydrocarbon sector companies in progress that do not have an environmental management instrument (IGA) in force and have built components or made modifications to the project without previously modifying the IGA may adapt their activities.
Resolution 64/2024 (“Resolution”), issued by the Dirección Provincial de Personas Jurídicas de la Provincia de Buenos Aires (DPPJ), establishes a new regulatory framework for companies incorporated abroad to be registered in Argentina as a branch or to participate in local companies.
This new regulation applies to foreign companies already registered with the DPPJ, as well as to those that are in the process of being registered or will be registered with the DPPJ after the Resolution’s entry into force on 17 July 2024.