After 176 amendments were presented and various public hearings were held, the joint committee formed by senators and deputies to review the Executive Order (MP) 869/2018, which amended Law No. 13,709/2018 (General Law on Data Protection - LGPD), voted on May 7 in favor of approval of the wording proposed in the report by Deputy Orlando Silva, also rapporteur for the special committee that approved the bill that originated the LGPD.

Law No. 13,655/2018, published in early 2018, included new general principles in the Law of Introduction to the Norms of Brazilian Law - Lindb (Decree-Law No. 4,657/1942) and since then, much has been said about the applicability of the changes in all areas of law, especially tax law.

Presidential Decree 881/2019, called the Declaration of Economic Freedom Rights, is organized into five chapters and changes a series of laws, among which the most relevant are the Civil Code and the Brazilian Corporations Law. It has gained repercussion as a bet to catapult entrepreneurship, de-bureaucratize economic activity, and contribute to innovation, freeing startups from some bottlenecks caused by the Public Power.

Startups are, by definition, the work environment of young people, a demanding public when it comes to instantaneousness in relationships and communications, an entirely flexible routine and less bureaucracy. This innovative profile makes day to day work very informal.

CVM Instruction 606, published on March 25, promoted changes in CVM Instruction 555 in order to regulate the Incentivized Infrastructure Investment Funds (FI-Infra) under the terms of article 3 of Law No. 12,431/11. The objective of the measure was to incentivize the participation of the capital markets in the financing of infrastructure projects, whose progress has been hampered by the conditions of the political and economic scenario.

Approved in the Federal Senate in December of 2018 (PLS 484/17) and currently pending in the Chamber of Deputies, Bill 11,247/18, although controversial, may represent an important advance for the expansion of renewable energy sources in the Brazilian energy matrix.