"Simplex licensing puts companies and families in charge of construction rules" (with Neuza Pereira de Campos and Alexandre Roque)

«For lawyer Neuza Pereira de Campos, a Partner at SRS Legal, "the absence of procedures cannot be confused with not having to comply with all the applicable legal rules, particularly in terms of land use planning". In practice, she stresses that "the onus of verifying that projects comply with urban planning rules and construction standards shifts from the councils to the developers and, subsequently, to the purchasers of the properties, whether they are families or investors".
According to Neuza Pereira de Campos, "the councils will not cease to have supervisory powers, either during the construction process or after it has been completed, which, in the event of non-compliance with these rules, could lead to embargoes or summonses to restore urban legality with the need to carry out works or, in the extreme, demolition."
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Some of the possibilities opened up by the licensing Simplex have been criticized, but there are also a number of positive aspects that the new law opens up for the real estate and urban planning sectors, such as speeding up procedures and reducing bureaucracy at the public administration.
Alexandre Roque, a Partner at SRS Legal, believes that the Simplex licensing measures "are intended to make it possible to reduce the deadlines and the length and complexity of real estate development processes, which has long been pointed out by those involved in the sector as one of the biggest problems and even more impactful in economic terms and in terms of attracting investment.»