The President of the Republic sanctioned, with vetoes, the Conversion Law Project (PLV) No. 21/2022, arising from Executive Order No. 1,108/22 (“EO”), which brought new provisions regarding remote work, meal allowance and residual balances of union contributions. Law No. 14,442/22 was published today (September 05th, 2022) in the Official Gazette.  With regards to the remote […]

In brief On 7 December 2021, Decree No. 10,887 was published, providing for amendments to Decree No. 2,181 of 20 March 1997, which provides for the organization of the National Consumer Protection System and the administrative process in regard to consumer law at the federal level. More details On December 7, 2021, Decree No. 10,887 […]

The Provisional Measure No. 1.067/2021 (“Measure”) was issued today (September 03) in the Union’s Official Gazette, aiming to improve the agility and efficiency of the incorporation process of drugs by the Brazilian Agency of Supplementary Health (“ANS”) for health plans. The Measure amends Law No. 9.656/1998, which regulates private health care plans and insurance. Below […]

On July 27, 2021, the Federal Government created the System of Public Integrity of the Federal Executive Branch (“Sipef”), through a presidential decree issued by President Jair Bolsonaro. Sipef will coordinate and articulate the activities related to public integrity in the federal executive branch, in addition to establishing standards for integrity measures adopted by agencies […]

Trench Rossi Watanabe, one of the largest law firms in Brazil, announced the respective promotion and hiring of two new partners starting in July 2021. Attorney Flavia Amaral, who comes to the Firm as a lateral hire to further strengthen the data protection, technology and intellectual property team, and the then-senior associate Clarissa Lehmen, from […]

On June 1st, 2021, the President sanctioned the Complementary Law 182/2021 known as the Legal Framework for Startups. The main goal of the new law is to promote and encourage innovative entrepreneurship in the country, focusing on the advance of startups as a path for economic, social, and environmental development, and on the modernization of the […]

The MAPA Integrity Recognition (Selo Mais Integridade) was created on 12/12/2018, by MAPA Ordinance No. 2462, to recognize and reward integrity practices by agribusiness companies in terms of social responsibility, sustainability and ethics, in addition to validating their efforts to mitigate fraud, bribery and corruption. For the year 2021, agribusiness companies and cooperatives seeking recognition […]

On May 27, 2021, the Municipality of Sao Paulo published Law No. 17,557/2021 providing a Special Program for taxpayers to pay certain tax and non-tax debts regulated by the Municipality of Sao Paulo, with reductions on interest and penalties applied by the municipality authorities on tax triggering events that occurred up to December 30, 2020. […]

After several weeks of judgement, the Brazilian Supreme Court concluded yesterday (May 12) the judgement of ADI No. 5.529, regarding the 10-year minimum patent term.  This case was filed in 2016, by the Public Prosecutors’ Office (PPO), challenging the constitutionality of Article 40, sole paragraph, of the IP Law, which provided a minimum 10-year exclusivity […]