Company: CRESW
Filing Date: 2025-10-24
Form Type: 20-F
Source: 0001654954-25-012195
Chunk: 222

Company: CRESUD INC
Filing Date: 2025-10-24
Form: 20-F
Item: Item 4
Chunk 222
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235/2014) to register with the rural environmental register (“CAR”). This electronic registration integrates environmental information regarding the property, deforestation control, the monitoring and combating of forests and other forms of native vegetation, as well as environmental and economic planning of rural properties. The CAR gathers environmental information for each property regarding the situation of permanent preservation areas, legal reserve areas, forests and remnants of native vegetation, restricted use areas, consolidated areas, etc.

This register requires the rural proprietary to regularize their environmental situation. It is a requirement to have access to credit, however, sanctions are not imposed for those who are not registered with CAR.

 All of Brasilagro owned properties are registered or in the process of being registered with CAR.

Ownership of Agricultural Land in Brazil by Foreigners

In August 2010, the then-president of Brazil approved Opinion AGU-LA-2010 of the Federal Attorney General’s Office (AGU). The AGU-LA-2010 Opinion revised Opinions GQ-181 of 1998 and GQ-22 of 1994, accepted paragraph 1 of article 1 of Law No. 5,709/1971 and article 1 of Decree No. 74,965/1974 (which regulates Law No. 5,709/1971), in the light of the Brazilian Federal Constitution of 1988, and considered companies headquartered in Brazil with majority foreign ownership that grants their owners the power to influence the resolutions of the general meeting, to elect the majority of the company’s directors and to direct the company’s business activities and guide the functioning of the company’s corporate governance bodies, for the purposes of Law No. 5,709/1971, as foreign companies. As a result, Brazilian companies treated as foreign companies for the purposes of Law No. 5,709/1971 became subject to restrictions on the acquisition of rural properties in Brazil, under the terms of Law No. 5,709/1971 and Decree No. 74,965/1974. Under Article 23 of Federal Law No. 8,629/1993, the same restrictions apply to the leasing of rural properties by foreigners.

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 Article 9 of Decree No. 74,965, of November 26, 1974, which regulates Law No. 5, 709/1971, provides that the interested party wishing to obtain authorization to acquire a rural property must apply to INCRA stating: (i) whether or not they