Abiove questions the report in Cade on the soybean moratorium and the session is closed.

A petition from the Brazilian Association of Vegetable Oil Industries (Abiove) questioning the rapporteurship, in the Administrative Council for Economic Defense (Cade), of the soybean moratorium process, caused the tumultuous end of the session this Wednesday (22). Abiove had presented grounds for declaration, in which it pointed out the illegitimacy of the change of rapporteurship carried out by an order from the president of Cade, Gustavo Augusto Freitas de Lima. On September 30, Cade decided to apply the preventive measure that suspends the soybean moratorium only from January 1, 2026. At the time, of the six members of Cade, only the rapporteur, councilor Carlos Jacques, and the president of the competition authority defended the resumption of the preventive measure. Jacques followed the statement of August 18 from the General Superintendence (SG) of Cade, the technical area of the agency, and voted to maintain the preventive measure. Subsequently, councilor José Levi do ...