A special committee of the Chamber of Deputies approved on Tuesday (04), the proposal of National Policy for the Reduction of Agrochemicals (PL 6670/16). According to information from the Chamber Agency, the text was approved even with the obstruction of the parliamentarians of the ruralist group.
Among other things, the proposal foresees the creation of restricted use zones and agrotoxic free zones, especially near housing, schools, water resources and environmentally protected areas.
The text also amends the current Agrochemicals Law (7.802 / 89) to prohibit the registration of inputs classified as “extremely toxic”. In the registration process, broad transparency and participation of civil society organizations with national action in the areas of agriculture, environment, public health and consumer protection should be guaranteed.
MEPs linked to agriculture are against the measure
The approval of the text occurred after strong obstruction of the deputies linked to the agribusiness, who presented several requests to delay the voting.
Deputy Valdir Colatto (MDB-SC) had already submitted an alternative report (separate vote), in order to avoid “legal insecurity and obstacles” to large-scale conventional agriculture.
Colatto said he believed that the proposal approved in the special commission would be defeated in the House Plenary.
“We will continue working to have this bill modified. We need to make an agreement to preserve both organic farming and the issue of pesticides, biotechnology, “he said. “It is a utopia to think that people will only work with organic agriculture, leading to lies for the population that the products arrive at the table with a level of agricultural pesticides above the tolerated,” he added.
After approval in the special commission, the text now goes to the plenary’s analysis.
This text was translated by machine from Brazilian Portuguese.