Adoção da auditoria ambiental compulsória no Estado da Bahia: análise jurídica e diretrizes necessárias para incorporação do instrumento de política pública ambiental

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2013-09-26

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Universidade Católica do Salvador

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This study aims to analyze the adoption legally compulsory environmental audit in the state of Bahia. It is an instrument of state intervention imposed on various productive sectors, while ensuring the preservation, improvement and restoration of environmental quality, through a systematic, periodic and objective of establishing secure strategies to evaluate the company's compliance with respect to the middle environment, enabling compliance, continuous improvement in environmental performance, as well as a firm basis for correcting or minimizing negative environmental impacts. The legal institute integrates the role of the new instruments that seek to ensure the effectiveness of sustainable development. Due to the lack of national standards of the disciplinary matter, we conducted a chronological survey of the existing legal and a comparative analysis of the laws of Brazilian states that have adopted the tool, in order to identify the specifics of the new legal institute. The results indicate that the instrument is in line with the Brazilian legal system for protection of the environment , which were the legal criteria for the State of Bahia can incorporate compulsory environmental audit as an instrument of environmental public policy, with the correction, including some vulnerabilities detected in comparative study.

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Auditoria ambiental compulsória, Instituto jurídico, Desenvolvimento sustentável, Política pública ambiental, Environmental audit compulsory, Legal institution, Sustainable development, Environmental public policy

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