The (Lack of) Control of Legal Deforestation in MATOPIBA Regulation and Governance of

to identify if the lack of access to information lies in (i) the registration of the ASV request by the entrepreneur/technical consultant; (ii) the issuance of the ASV and its registration in SINAFLOR by the state environmental agency in charge; or (iii) the provision of information by public data platforms. [...] The interested party must fill in all the necessary information in the system to support the analysis and respective approval by the state environmental agency in charge, following the procedure established in the SINAFLOR manual.18 When, in addition to promoting vegetation suppression, the entrepreneur also uses or commercializes a forest product—wood, firewood, charcoal, others—the vegetation su. [...] The SINAFLOR manual has different requirements for registering requests for vegetation suppression in the UAS module and the ASV module; the table considers only the requirements for the UAS module. [...] In the state of Mato Grosso, it is possible to visualize deforestation features interactively through the Geoportal SEMA/MT.21 These deforestation data include relevant information, such as the deforested area, the name of the enterprise, the type of authorization, and the purpose of deforestation. [...] Due to limitations in accessing ASV data, it is challenging to determine if the lack of information lies in the registration of the ASV request by the entrepreneur/technical consultant; the issuance of ASV and its registration in SINAFLOR by the state environmental agency in charge, or the provision of information by public data platforms.