This Complementary Law, composed of 249 articles and six Annexes, is structured in five main Titles and several Chapters. The Law regulates the Environmental Protection Code of Roraima State. The objective of the Code is to improve environmental quality administration, environmental protection and control. Moreover, the Law aims at granting sustainable use of natural resources. It is divided in five main Titles dealing with, respectively: Roraima environmental policy and main institutions; Main instruments for environmental policy (such as, for instance, environmental planning and zoning, protected areas, EIA, environmental licensing and monitoring,); Environmental sectors (flora, fauna, land management and conservation, solid waste, groundwater, mineral resources, environmental pollution, industrial and urban management, hazardous waste, sanitation); Guidelines for natural resources’ use (with special regards to air, water, soil, noise, and pollution); and, finally, the Environment State Fund (FEMA). The State Environmental Policy aims to enable: compatibility of the development with the protection of the environment, aiming at ensuring the quality of life conditions; State action in its various institutional levels; establishment of norms regarding the use of environmental resources, continuously updating through technological innovations and changes due to anthropic or natural action; creation of mechanisms that encourage research and development of technologies, aimed at the rational use of environmental resources; coordinate all activity related to the defense of the environment; promote community participation in the process of planning, controlling and supervising the environment; disseminate new management technologies, destined to the preservation of the environmental quality; establish mechanisms for indemnify damages caused to the environment; protect the State's environmental and natural heritage; control polluting activities; create preservation and conservation units of ecosystems; and preserve environmental resources in a rational use.
Brasil · 1994-08-26