Company: CRESW
Filing Date: 2025-10-24
Form Type: 20-F
Source: 0001654954-25-012195
Chunk: 91

Company: CRESUD INC
Filing Date: 2025-10-24
Form: 20-F
Item: Item 3
Chunk 91
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 that the restrictions on companies considered to be controlled by a foreign entity must be maintained. A second Justice asked to pause the proceedings to review the file, thereby interrupting the trial, which was only resumed in June 2021, when the Justice presented his vote diverging from the rapporteur, confirming the inapplicability of the restrictions. 

As of the date of this Annual Report, a final judgment is still pending, and we are not able to provide an estimate of the timeframe for a final judgment to be issued by the Supreme Court. Depending on the final decisions of these pending lawsuits, Brasilagro may need to modify its business strategy and intended practices in order to be able to acquire agricultural properties.

This may have the effect of increasing the number of transactions we must complete, which would increase our transaction costs. It may also require us to adopt alternative measures to reduce our interest in companies that own or lease rural properties, including entering into joint ventures, which increases the complexity and risks associated with these transactions.

Any regulatory limitations and restrictions could materially limit Brasilagro’s ability to acquire agricultural properties, increase the investments, transaction costs or complexity of such transactions, or complicate the regulatory procedures required, any of which could materially and adversely affect Brasilagro and us and our ability to successfully implement our business strategy. 

We are subject to extensive Brazilian environmental regulation that may significantly increase the Company’s expenses.

Our business activities in Brazil are subject to extensive federal, state and municipal laws and regulations concerning environmental protection, which impose on us various environmental obligations, such as environmental licensing requirements, minimum standards for the release of effluents, use of agrochemicals, management of solid waste, protection of certain areas (legal reserve and permanent preservation areas), and the need for a special authorization to use water, among others. The failure to comply with such laws and regulations may subject the violator to administrative fines, mandatory interruption of activities and criminal sanctions, in addition to the obligation to rectify damages and pay environmental and third-party damage compensation, without any caps. In addition, Brazilian environmental law adopts a joint and several and strict liability system for environmental damages, which makes the polluter liable even in cases where it is not negligent and would render us jointly and severally liable for the obligations of our contractors or off-takers. If we become subject to environmental liabilities, any costs we may incur to rectify possible environmental damage would lead to a reduction in our financial resources, which would otherwise remain at our disposal for current or future strategic investment, thus causing