A implicação dos critérios socioambientais do acordo público da carne na comercialização de gado na Amazônia

Abstract

The study in question addresses the historical context of the development of livestock in Brazil and the emergence of the public meat agreement, which provides for minimum criteria to be observed by large meatpacking companies for the sale of cattle and by-products in the Legal Amazon. It will specifically investigate the embargo criterion, since, in practice, the application of this criterion in the way it has been applied implies legal and commercial uncertainty, since, for its verification, it uses the database of environmental agencies that, sometimes, they apply infraction notices and embargo terms in disagreement with current legislation, causing irregular embargoes and surprising producers who are aware only at the time of sale, causing serious damage due to the lack of their own administrative procedure aimed at the producer's defense. For this, the study of doctrine, legislation, articles written by professionals in the area, as well as the Conduct Adjustment Term (TAC) signed between the 3 largest meatpacking companies with the Federal Public Ministry and the Agreement signed with Greenpeace. Thus, the embargo criteria deserve attention since they do not always correspond to reality, preventing the producer from completing the sale to the meatpacking company, causing the latter, even with its regular ownership, due to a third party error, to spend an exaggerated amount of time to resolve and prove the absence of irregularities, since the commercial partner only superficially analyzes the information made available to them by the official bodies, without analyzing the merits of the problem. In this sense, the improvement of verification mechanisms is essential for the proper functioning of the monitoring protocol, so that it actually achieves its purpose, and that the consequences of its malfunction do not bring even more damage to the rural producer, damage that could be avoided.