Critical minerals PL creates council to define list with review every 4 years
Bill 2780, which establishes the National Policy on Critical and Strategic Minerals, provides that the list of minerals considered critical and strategic in the country will not be directly established in the legal text. According to the proposed format, the list will be defined by a new body, the Special Council for Critical and Strategic Minerals (CMCE), with mandatory review every four years.
The proposal seeks to provide flexibility so that the classification follows technological, industrial and geopolitical changes that alter the relevance of certain mineral inputs for the economy and for chains such as energy transition, defense, fertilizers and electrification.
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“National sovereignty is a pillar of the text. We will not subject ourselves to being exporters. We want to add value to Brazilian products”, he said.
In practice, the design transfers to the CMCE the competence to periodically update which substances will have priority treatment within the scope of public policy, which tends to influence the selection of projects considered strategic and the direction of funding instruments and regulatory monitoring provided for in the PL.
The text also signals a “continuous governance” approach, by linking the list to regular review cycles, instead of depending on legislative changes to incorporate or remove minerals from the strategic list.
