Mineração em faixa de fronteira: oportunidade ou ameaça para a segurança nacional?

Abstract

Brazil has adopted, to its border range, a model that considers such portion of land as indispensable to its national security, subject to the control of the State. However, the legislation on border range regarding mining activity is restrictive, especially concerning enterprises with majorly foreign-owned capital, which narrows the development of that economic activity. Considering the specificities of mining, its potential and economic importance to the country, as well as the evolution of the State’s focus of activity both on the border range and on the economic activity, improving the current legislation is of essence, easing the legal constraints for mining. However, this is not a matter of abandoning the strategic view of the State on that area, since there would still be control, mainly by means of prior consent of the National Defense Council. It is only a matter of modernizing the legal devices, provided that there is the possibility of developing regulatory tools that are more modern and that contribute to the regional socioeconomic development.