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Law No. 17.677 creating the State Policy promoting Organic Products Fairs.

Country/Territory
Brazil
Territorial subdivision
Santa Catarina
Document type
Legislation
Date
2019
Source
FAO, FAOLEX
Subject
Agricultural & rural development, Food & nutrition
Keyword
Agricultural development Farming Ecological production/organic production Internal trade Policy/planning Food security Food sovereignty
Geographical area
Amazonia, Americas, Latin America and the Caribbean, North Atlantic, South America, South Atlantic
Entry into force notes
This Law enters into force on the day of its publication.
Abstract

This Law creates the State Policy promoting Organic Products Fairs. The State Policy has the following objectives: promote food and nutritional security and the right to adequate and healthy food; encourage the consumption of organic products; encourage entrepreneurship and cooperativism, with a view to growing the production of organic products; contribute to cooperativism and the solidarity economy in the State of Santa Catarina; and make the population aware of the benefits of healthy eating. The instruments of the State Policy are: planning actions aimed at the sector; organizing and structuring production, distribution, marketing and consumption chains for these products; simplifying administrative processes, notably with regard to licenses granted to marketers and authorizations for the purpose of holding fairs; simplifying credit for the production of these products; wide dissemination of the fairs.

Full text
Portuguese
Website
leis.alesc.sc.gov.br