DECREE OF June 13, 2006.

Declaration of public utility, for the purposes of misappropriation, total or partial, or institution of administrative servitude of passage, in favor of Brazilian Petroleum S.A. -PETROBRÁS, the real estate that mentions, constituted of land and benefits, necessary for the construction of the Petrochemical Complex of Rio de Janeiro, and gives other arrangements.

THE PRESIDENT OF THE REPUBLIC, in the use of the attribution conferring you the art. 84, inciso IV, of the Constitution, in view of the provisions of the Decree-Law No 3,365 of June 21, 1941, in Decree-Law No 1,075 of January 22, 1970, at art. 8th, inciso VIII, of the Law No 9,478 of August 6, 1997, and what is stated in the ANP Process at 48610.005013 /2006-17,

DECRETA:

Art. 1st Ficam declared of public utility, for the purposes of dispropriation, total or partial, or of the institution of administrative servitude of passage, in favor of Brazilian Petroleum S.A. -PETROBRÁS, or of company by it controlled, directly or indirectly, which comes to be in charge of the construction, installation and operation of the refining and production units of petrochemicals, real estate constituted of land and benfection, of private property, excluded public domain goods, understood in area of land situated in the Municipality of Itaboraí, State of Rio de Janeiro, and whose administrative restrictions are indispensable to the construction of the Rio Petrochemical Complex of January-COMPERJ, including the complementary facilities.

Single Paragraph. The area of land referred to in the caput of this article, necessary for the deployment of COMPERJ, is located in the Municipality of Itaboraí, within the limits with the Municipalities of Cachoeiras of Macacu and Guapimirim, which thus describes and characterizes on the basis of the indicated points, adopting as references natural geographical accidents and municipal boundaries: from point P01, of UTM coordinates E-724.084 and N-7.494.937, following in the general south heading and distance of 485 m, along the secondary highway with ground floor, up to point P02, of coordinates E-724.109 and N-7.494.453 ; from this point, following in the general direction southeast and distance of 375 m, along the secondary highway, up to point P03, of coordinates E-724.406 and N-7.494.225 ; from this point, following in the general direction east and distance of 418 m, along the secondary highway, up to point P04, of coordinates E-724.824 and N-7.494.206 ; from this point, following in the general course southeast and distance of 436 m, along the secondary highway, to the point P05, of coordinates E-725.169 and N-7.494.073 ; from this point, following the general course south-east and distance of 1,231 m, along the secondary highway, up to point P06, of coordinates E-726.033 and N-7.493.198 ; from this point, following the south-east overall course and distance of 544 m, along the secondary highway, up to point P07, from coordinates E-726.415 and N-7.492.810 ; from this point, following the general south and distance course of 530 m, along the secondary highway, up to point P08, from E-726.500 coordinates and N-7.492.287 ; from this point, following the general direction southeast and distance of 630 m, along the secondary highway, up to point P09, of coordinates E-726.812 and N-7.491.783, located on the railway bed off ; from this point, following in the general course southwest and distance of 721 m, over the deactivated railway bed, up to point P010, of coordinates E-726.593 and N-7.491.096 ; from this point, following the general south-west and distance of 5,133 m, over the deactivated railroad bed, up to point P011, of coordinates E-721.706 and N-7.489.530 ; from this point, following the general heading southwest and distance of 242 m, over the deactivated railroad bed, up to point P012, of coordinates E-721.511 and N-7.489.387, located at the intersection of the railway bed with the Caceribu River ; from this point, following the general north-west and distance course of 7,884 m, by the right bank of the Caceribu River, up to point P013, of coordinates E-714.550 and N-7.491.300, located at the junction of the Caceribu River with the extravasor canal that links the Rio Caceribu to the Guapi River ; from this point, following the north and distance general heading of 1,785 m, by the extravasor canal (municipal boundary with the Municipality of Guapimirim) up to point P014, of coordinates E-714.550 and N-7493060, located at the canal junction extravasor with the Guapi River ; from this point, following the general direction east and distance of 681 m, by the left bank of the Guapi River, up to point P015, of coordinates E-715.140 and N-7.493.150, located at the Guapi River meeting with the Macacu River ; from this point, following the general course northeast and distance of 9,291 m, by the left bank of the Macacu River to the P01, of coordinates E-724.084 and N-7.494.937, closing the polygonal. The present description ends up on a total perimeter of thirty thousand, three hundred and eighty-six metres, pertaining an area of forty five million and two hundred and ninety eight thousand square meters. The descriptions above are in accordance with the DE-5400.00-8100-111-PEI-001 design, with the coordinate system in the Universal Transversa Mercator (UTM) projection, source in Ecuador and Central Meridian: 45º W, Zone: 23, containing their respective constants in the value of 10,000km and 500km, Datum Vertical: Marégraph Imbituba, SC, Datum Horizontal: Cheerful Corrego, MG, Letter from Brazil: ITABORAI-IBGE Foundation 2746-1, Folha SF-23-Z-B-V-1.

Art. 2nd Brazilian Oil S.A. -PETROBRÁS, or company by it controlled, directly or indirectly, which comes to be in charge of the construction, installation and operation of the refining and production units of petrochemicals, is authorised to promote, with own resources, friendly or judicially, the misappropriation or the institution of administrative servitude of passage that treats art. 1st, and may even invoke the character of urgency for the purposes of provisional immission in possession of the goods, in the terms of art. 15 of Decree-Law No 3,365 of June 21, 1941, and of Decree-Law No 1,075 of January 22, 1970.

Art. 3rd This Decree goes into effect on the date of its publication.

Brasilia, June 13, 2006 ; 185th of the Independence and 118th of the Republic.

LUIZ INACIO LULA DA SILVA

Silas Rondeau Cavalcante Silva