LicencIA - a system for improving the environmental licensing process.
Environmental licensing, management system, PNMA, environmental legislation
The environmental licensing process was established in Brazil in 1981 through the National Environmental Policy (PNMA), establishing that “the construction, installation, expansion and operation of establishments and activities that use environmental resources, effectively or potentially polluting [... ] will depend on prior environmental licensing”, establishing, since then, that any enterprise falling within this profile requires prior authorization from one of the federated entities (union, state or municipality) to install and/or operate. For make what was established in the law possible, the federated entities needed, and still need, to structure a regulatory structure, requiring a considerable investment in qualified technical staff and in infrastructure with physical headquarters and technology for the analyzes of licensing processes to take place. However, since the establishment of Environmental Licensing as an instrument of the PNMA, entities have been facing a series of difficulties in its implementation and it is causing for enterprises and investors a slow and costly process. As a consequence, there is difficulty to generate new businesses and to attracte investments, hindering the generation of taxes for federated entities, as well as employment and income for the population. In this sense, this work intends to propose a technology-based solution capable to make the environmental licensing process more efficient and faster based on the study of the structure of environmental licensing in Brazil, the identification of the main difficulties that exist within the scope of environmental licensing and the consequent analysis. of the techno-marketing scenario of environmental licensing solutions and definition of the main requirements and functionalities that must be present in LicencIA - a system for improving the environmental licensing process.