Lei nº 11.326, de 24 de julho de 2006 - Estabelece as diretrizes para a formulação da Política Nacional da Agricultura Familiar e Empreendimentos Familiares Rurais (Law No. 11,326 of 24 July 2006 - Guidelines for the National Policy on Family Farming and Rural Family Enterprises)

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LAW No. 11.326, OF 24 JULY 2006.

Regulation

Regulation

Establishes the guidelines for the formulation of the National Policy for Family Farming and Rural Family Enterprises.

THE PRESIDENT OF THE REPUBLIC I make known that the National Congress decrees and I sanction the following Law:

Art. 1

This Law establishes the concepts, principles and instruments intended for the formulation of public policies directed at Family Farming and Rural Family Enterprises.

Art. 2 The formulation, management and execution of the National Policy for Family Farming and Rural Family Enterprises shall be articulated, in all phases of their formulation and implementation, with agricultural policy, as provided by law, and with policies aimed at agrarian reform.

Art. 3 For the purposes of this Law, a family farmer and rural family entrepreneur is considered to be one who carries out activities in the rural environment, simultaneously meeting the following requirements:

I - does not hold, under any title, an area larger than 4 (four) fiscal modules;

II - predominantly uses labor from their own family in the economic activities of their establishment or enterprise;

III - has family income predominantly originating from economic activities linked to their own establishment or enterprise;

III - has a minimum percentage of family income originating from economic activities of their establishment or enterprise, as defined by the Executive Branch;

(Text given by Law No. 12.512, of 2011)

IV - manages their establishment or enterprise with their family.

§ 1 The provisions of item I of the

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of this article do not apply in the case of a rural condominium or other collective forms of ownership, provided that the ideal fraction per owner does not exceed 4 (four) fiscal modules.

§ 2 The following are also beneficiaries of this Law:

I - silviculturists who simultaneously meet all the requirements set forth in the

caput

of this article, cultivate native or exotic forests and promote the sustainable management of those environments;

II - aquaculturists who simultaneously meet all the requirements set forth in the

caput

of this article and exploit water reservoirs with a total surface area of up to 2ha (two hectares) or occupy up to 500m³ (five hundred cubic meters) of water, when the exploitation is carried out in net tanks;

III - extractivists who simultaneously meet the requirements set forth in items II, III and IV of the

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of this article and carry out this activity artisanally in the rural environment, excluding garimpeiros and faiscadores;

IV - fishers who simultaneously meet the requirements set forth in items I, II, III and IV of the

caput

of this article and carry out the fishing activity artisanally.

V - indigenous peoples who simultaneously meet the requirements set forth in items II, III and IV of the caput of art. 3;

(Included by Law No. 12.512, of 2011)

VI - members of remaining rural quilombo communities and other traditional peoples and communities who simultaneously meet items II, III and IV of the caput of art. 3.

(Included by Law No. 12.512, of 2011)

§ 3 The National Monetary Council - CMN may establish additional criteria and conditions for qualification for the purpose of access to credit lines intended for family farmers, in order to address the specificities of their different segments.

(Included by Law No. 12.058, of 2009)

§ 4 Credit lines may be created for cooperatives and associations that meet minimum percentages of family farmers in their membership of cooperatives or associates and of raw material benefited, processed or commercialized originating from those farmers, as provided by the CMN.

(Included by Law No. 12.058, of 2009)

Art. 4 The National Policy for Family Farming and Rural Family Enterprises shall observe, among others, the following principles:

I - decentralization;

II - environmental, social and economic sustainability;

III - equity in the application of policies, respecting aspects of gender, generation and ethnicity;

IV - participation of family farmers in the formulation and implementation of the national policy for family farming and rural family enterprises.

Art. 5 To achieve its objectives, the National Policy for Family Farming and Rural Family Enterprises shall promote the planning and execution of actions, in order to harmonize the following areas:

I - credit and guarantee fund;

II - infrastructure and services;

III - technical assistance and rural extension;

IV - research;

V - commercialization;

VI - insurance;

VII - housing;

VIII - sanitary, social security, commercial and tax legislation;

IX - cooperativism and associativism;

X - education, training and professionalization;

XI - non-agricultural rural businesses and services;

XII - agro-industrialization.

XIII - sustainable modernization and development; (Included by Law No. 14.828, of 2024)

XIV - technological innovation and development.

(Included by Law No. 14.828, of 2024)

Art. 6 The Executive Branch shall regulate this Law, as necessary for its application.

Art. 7 This Law enters into force on the date of its publication

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Brasília, 24 July 2006; 185th of Independence and 118th of the Republic.

LUIZ INÁCIO LULA DA SILVA

Guilherme Cassel

This text does not replace the one published in the DOU of 25.7.2006

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