On Friday 12th, the Brazilian Securities and Exchange Commission (Comissão de Valores Mobiliários – CVM) issued Circular Letter No. 1/2018, clarifying that cryptocurrencies cannot be classified as financial assets, according to article 2, subsection V, of CVM Instruction No. 555/14, based on the degree of uncertainty surrounding their legal-economic nature and financial risks involved.
The Brazilian National Agency of Petroleum, Natural Gas and Biofuels (ANP) opens a public consultation on arbitration clauses under the concession agreements for the exploration and production of oil and natural gas. Consultation No. 24/2017 will last twenty days and the amendments to the arbitration clauses will be effective for
The Convention Abolishing the Requirement of Legalization for Foreign Public Documents, called Apostille Convention (“Convention”), promulgated by Decree No. 8,660/2016, entered into force on August 14, 2016. The Convention was held on October 05, 1961 in the Hague, but Brazilian Government only deposited the instrument of accession and notified the Ministry
The Central Bank of Brazil (“BACEN”) published on June 16, 2016 the Circular No. 3,795 (“Circular”), to consolidate the regulations regarding the statement of the Census of Foreign Capital, created by the Federal Law No. 4,131/1962. In the sole paragraph of Article 1, the Circular confirms the existence of two
On 07.12.2016 was published the Law No. 13,311/2016 establishing general rules for the occupation and use of urban public area for urban facilities like kiosks, trailers, fairs and newsagents. Since the enactment of Law, municipalities are authorized to concede grants for public space use for those kinds of urban
On 06.15.2016, it was published the Law No. 13,295/2016, which resulted from the conversion of the Provisional Measure No. 707/2015, and extends the deadline to register with the Rural Environmental Registry (CAR) until 12.31.2017. Originally, the aforementioned Provisional Measure defined rules and deadlines for refinancing debts of farmers and
The Administrative Council for Economic Defense (“CADE”) published on May 25, 2016 the Antitrust Leniency Program Guidelines (“Guidelines”) aim to consolidate the best practices and procedures adopted by the Brazilian antitrust agency for the negotiation of Antitrust Leniency Agreements (“Leniency Agreements”) and to align them with international standards. Based on Law No. 12.529/2011 and CADE’s Internal
Brazil has a special and temporary regime for monetary and tax regulation in order to regularize unreported foreign assets held by individuals and legal entities resident or domiciled in Brazil. Such regime – called RERCT in Portuguese – was created by Federal Law No. 13,254/2016 and detailed by the Normative
The Administrative Council for Economic Defense (CADE) released for public consultation a draft resolution which defines the concept of associative contracts and provides the cases of a notification to the antitrust authority according to item IV, article 90 of the Federal Law 12.529/2011 (“Antitrust Law”). The associative contracts are provided
On 05.12.2016, it was published the Decree n. 8772/2016 (“Decree”), that regulates Law No 13.123/2015 (“Act”), which provides for access to genetic resources, the protection and access to associated traditional knowledge and the sharing of benefits for conservation and sustainable use of biodiversity. The Regulation, in similarity to the
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