Are You Registered In Brazil?

There are many exciting upcoming events in Brazil: the World Cup next year, the Olympics in 2016, and although certainly not as well known, some very interesting developments in information management are taking place at the Instituto Brasileiro do Meio Ambiente e dos Recursos Naturais Renováveis ("IBAMA"), Brazil's equivalent of the EPA.

IBAMA maintains Brazil's Federal Technical Registry of Potentially Polluting or Natural Resource Consuming Activities, the Cadastro Técnico Federal de Atividades Potencialmente Poluidoras e Utilizadoras de Recursos Naturais ("CTF").  Federal Law n. 10.165/00.  With certain limited exceptions, participation in the Registry is mandatory for companies in Brazil that (1) are involved in "potentially polluting" activities, including (but not limited to) extraction, production, transportation or sale of products that are potentially hazardous to the environment; (2) use products or byproducts of flora and fauna; or (3) are required