ICMS-Ecológico como instrumento de política ambiental em Minas Gerais

Abstract

The adoption of adjusting instruments which aim to regulate the direct utilization of natural resources and, also to restrict the activities in particular regions or and periods, through license grant and, the control of the use of natural resources, is a common practice adopted by the state as a way to manage the use, or to establish limits to the environment degradation or any other natural resource. The main adjusting instrument adopted is the delimitation of the natural environment preservation/conservation areas. A way to reward/compensate financially the citizens of the cities where are the conservation/preservation areas, that provoke a restricting use of a part of its territory in order to conserve and preserve it, is the Ecologic ICMS.but is the society rewarding enough the others who preserve /conserve these environmental services/goods? Or, is this part of the population subsiding the environmental quality of the part of the population that haven´t reserved territories to maintain theses areas preserved/conserved? The aim of the study is to analyze the used equation to calculate the repass of the Ecologic ICMS, under criteria of the conservation unit, is being applied in a clear way and fair for all the Mineiros cities that have such areas. The central analysis would be, however, to verify if the cities which presented similar areas of preservation/conservation, also present similar repasses , that is, it analyze the way how the repass is being fair to the similar territories of preservation/conservation.