DECREE OF December 21, 2007.

Declara of social interest, for purposes of agrarian reform, the rural real estate named?Engenho Saint John?, situated in the Municipalities of St. Lawrence of the Mata and Paudalho, State of Pernambuco, and gives other arrangements.

THE PRESIDENT OF THE REPUBLIC, in the use of the assignments that confer upon him the arts. 84, inciso IV, and 184 of the Constitution, and in the terms of the arts. 2nd of the Supplemental Act no 76, of July 6, 1993, 18 and 20 of the Law no 4,504, of November 30, 1964, and 2nd of Law no 8,629, of February 25, 1993,

DECRETA:

Art. 1st It is declared of social interest, for the purposes of agrarian reform, the rural real estate named?Engineered Saint John?, with recorded area of four hundred and twenty-nine hectares, fifteen airs and thirty-five centiars, and measured area of four hundred and eleven hectares, three airs and sixty-two centiars, situated in the Municipalities of St. Lawrence of the Mata and Paudalho, object of the Matriculation on the 14,896, fls. 181, Book 2-A/L, of the Estate Registration Office of the Comarch of St. Lawrence of the Mata, State of Pernambuco (Process INCRA/SR-03/no 54140.000513 /2005-68).

Art. 2nd This Decree, regardless of discrimination or fundraising, does not hear particular indennial effects, concerning public domain areas constituted by law or registration and to areas of private domain collected by nullity, prescription, comb or ineffectiveness operated solely for the benefit of any legal person of public law, excepted the benfeits of good faith in them existing previously to the science of the beginning of the administrative procedure, excluding still from its effects the semovens, machinery and agricultural implements and any benfeitory introduced by anyone who comes to benefit from it destination.

Art. 3rd The National Institute of Colonization and Agrarian Reform-INCRA, attested to the private dominial legitimacy of the mentioned planimetry area, is allowed to promote the disappropriation of the rural real estate from which it treats this Decree, in the manner provided for in the Supplementary Act no 76, of July 6, 1993, and to maintain the areas of Legal reserve and permanent preservation provided for in the Law no 4,771, of September 15, 1965, preferentially in single gleba, so as to reconcile the settlement with the preservation of the environment.

Art. 4th This Decree goes into effect on the date of its publication.

Brasilia, December 21, 2007; 186th of Independence and 119th of the Republic.

LUIZ INACIO LULA DA SILVA

Guilherme Cassel

This text does not replace the one published in the DOU of 12/24/2007