On December 24, 2024, Brazil passed Federal Law No. 15,070/2024 (the “Bio-inputs Law”). The Bio-inputs Law aims to regulate many aspects of the use of bio-inputs1 in the agricultural sector, including the production, import or export, transport and storage, and disposal of these materials.
The new law applies to all cultivation systems—including conventional, organic and agroecological—as well as to all bio-inputs used in farming. The control, registration, inspection, and supervision of applicable products and establishments falls to the federal, state or district body responsible for agricultural defense, within their respective scopes. At the federal level, the Ministry of Agriculture and Livestock (MAPA) is responsible for these functions, and shall regulate the requirements for registering bio-inputs or bio-input inoculums, taking into account the purpose and category of each product.
Registration at MAPA is mandatory for biofactories, importers, exporters and traders of bio-inputs or bio-inputs inoculums, as well as bio-inputs and bio-inputs inoculums for commercial purposes. Production units and bio-inputs produced exclusively for personal use, or for research purposes, are exempt from registration, as are family-farm production units and bio-inputs intended exclusively for export—which registration will instead require a prior notice of production for export.
MAPA may establish other exemptions for low-risk products through its own regulations. The rule provides special protection for bio-inputs developed by family farming, indigenous peoples, and traditional communities, with the aim of protecting traditional knowledge and practices; these will have a specific regulation aimed at recognizing and supporting their specific characteristics. The law also empowers the executive branch to use financial mechanisms to encourage research, development, production, use and marketing of bio-inputs, which should focus on promoting socio-biodiversity and the bioeconomy.
The Bio-inputs Law establishes the Agricultural Defense Product and Establishment Registration Fee (TREPDA), tied to the regular exercise of administrative police power arising from registration activities, which will only be charged with evaluating and changing registrations that require technical analysis of bio-inputs, or establishments that produce bio-inputs for commercial purposes. The law's regulations will establish deadlines and transition rules so that all segments can adapt to the established procedures, accounting for the peculiarities of each product category. The executive branch will have 360 days to regulate the law, starting from the date of publication (i.e, December 19, 2025).
The Environmental, Climate Change, and ESG practice of Tauil & Chequer Advogados, associated with Mayer Brown, is available for further clarifications regarding this topic.
1 Bio-inputs are biological products used for to promote agricultural development, such as fertilizers, beneficial insects, microbes, or other organisms.
