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This Act revokes Forestry Code established by Decree No. 23.793 of 23 January 1934 and establishes a New Forestry Code. It consists of 50 articles concerning the requirements to be satisfied for forests' exploitation and management. It defines protected areas, prohibiting forest exploitation (such as forests in which native people live, primordial forests of Amazon river basin, etc.). This Act also establishes reforestion obligation to be carried out by industrial ventures with high level of tim