At the beginning of the new legislative session of the Assembly of the Republic, the PS parliamentary group wants to complete “the missing piece” in the 2017 forestry reform and will propose the creation of a public land bank, which will allow the State to manage the land with no known owner. The PS ensures that, despite this new instrument, the right to private property is fully guaranteed.
The parliamentary leader of the PS, Eurico Brilhante Dias, clarified that the proposal will be scheduled for September 22, in Parliament. The main objective of the initiative to create a land bank is the possibility for the State to administer forest land -which is not suitable for agricultural activity- without a known owner, which according to Eurico Brilhante Dias “can be 20 to 30% of registration” and that result “often from inheritances from decades ago”.
The PS assures that “owners always have the right to claim” the land. The initiative foresees that “there is a period of 15 years of state ownership” on the land, but that “everything will be done in defense of a constitutional right, which is that of property toilet“. Eurico Brilhante Dias also stresses that the abandonment of forest land “creates more risk of fires” and wastes “a sustainable way of combating climate change”.
For the PS, this is a step that remained to be taken in the 2017 forestry reform “due to the opposition that failed” the piece of the puzzle that socialists consider important to complete this reform. With the creation of a land bank, the Government can seek to make the land profitable, that is, transferring the exploitation to agricultural and forestry cooperatives.
With the implementation of the simplified forest registry in 2017, the Government seeks to know the owners of agricultural and forest land, but there is still a difficulty in ensuring the management of land that has not been registered or claimed by the owners.
Source: Observadora
