The (Brazilian Legislation) EIA aims at extensive verification of environmental impacts and indication of respective mitigation measures. RIMA provides a detailed summary of the EIA as well as eludes its results.

It characterizes the enterprise and presents the results identifying legal non-conformities regarding the pollution that may be generated as a result of the installation and operation of enterprises.

Mandatory registration for all rural properties, aims to gather environmental information.

Instrument of control and urban planning, which seeks to understand the effects generated by a particular enterprise in its surroundings.