Decree No. 57.933 reorganizing the Secretariat of the Environment. Country/Territory Brazil Territorial subdivision São Paulo Document type Regulation Date 2012 Source FAO, FAOLEX Subject Environment gen. Keyword Institution Pollution control Environmental planning Legal proceedings/administrative proceedings Policy/planning Geographical area Amazonia, Americas, Latin America and the Caribbean, North Atlantic, South America, South Atlantic Entry into force notes This Decree enters into force on the day of its publication. Abstract This Decree, consisting of 147 articles divided into twelve Chapters and two Annexes, reorganizes the Secretariat of the Environment. It establishes composition, duties and responsibilities of the above mentioned Secretariat of the Environment within the State of São Paulo. The Secretariat is a sectional body of the National Environmental System (SISNAMA), established by Federal Law 6.938 of 31 August 1981, and the central organ of the State System of Environmental Management, Protection, Control and Development of the Appropriate Use of Natural Resources (SEAQUA), constituted by Law No. 9,509 of 20 March 1997. It is entitled to perform the following activities: a) coordinating the process of formulation, approval, execution, evaluation and updating of the State Environmental Policy, which is dealt with in Law No. 9.509 of 20 March 1997; b) analysing and monitoring sectoral public policies having impact on the environment; c) regulating environmental licensing and inspection in the State, which must be followed by all SEAQUA executing agencies and entities, in particular by CETESB - Companhia Ambiental do Estado de São Paulo; d) approving plans, programmes and budgets of organs and entities executing the State Environmental Policy and the coordination of their execution; e) coordinating plans and actions resulting from the State Environmental Policy with sectoral and local bodies and entities; f) managing policies, plans and environmental actions; g) environmental control, aiming at the sustainable development of the State; h) coordination. Full text Portuguese Website www.legislacao.sp.gov.br References - Legislation Implements Law No. 9.509 establishing the State Environmental Policy. Legislation | Brazil | 1997 Keyword: Pollution control, Environmental planning, Policy/planning Source: FAO, FAOLEX Amended by Decree No. 64.132 providing for the organization of the Secretariat of Infrastructure and Environment. Legislation | Brazil | 2019 Keyword: Institution, Pollution control, Environmental planning, Legal proceedings/administrative proceedings, Energy conservation/energy production, Policy/planning, Waste management, Freshwater pollution, Mining Source: FAO, FAOLEX Decree No. 62.682 creating and organizing the State Management Unit of the Project for the Protection of Services related to Climate and Biodiversity in the Southeastern Area of the Brazilian Atlantic Forest - Climate and Biodiversity Project in the Atlantic Forest. Legislation | Brazil | 2017 Keyword: Institution, Pollution control, Legal proceedings/administrative proceedings, Environmental planning, Biodiversity, Climate change, Policy/planning Source: FAO, FAOLEX