PROVISIONAL MEASURE NO. 2,024, OF May 2, 2000.

Institutes the Vale-mandatory toll on road transport of cargo and gives other arrangements.

O PRESIDENT OF THE REPUBLIC, in the use of the assignment that gives him the art. 62 of the Constitution, adopts the following Provisional Measure, with force of law:

Art. 1º It is instituted the Vale-Required toll, for effective use in expense of load displacement by means of road transport, on the Brazilian highways.

§ 1º The payment of the toll tariff, by cargo vehicles, becomes the responsibility of the shipper.

§ 2º For effect of the provisions of the caput, considers shipper the owner originating in the cargo and, secondarily, the contractor of the autonomous transporter.

Art. 2º The acquisition of the compulsory Valley-Pedagiarism, by the shipper, for the purpose of repassing the cargo carrier, give itself to the dealerships of the highways, and the marketing may be delegated to sales power stations or other institutions at the discretion of the concessionaire.

Single paragraph. The compulsory Valley-Pedagiarism should be delivered to the driver of the road vehicle in the act of the contracting of the transport service or the loading of the cargo to be transported, in the value required for free movement between its origin and the destination.

Art. 3º The Valley-Required toll will not be able to be accounted for in the value of freight freight to be transported, by Brazilian highways in which there is toll collection.

Art. 4º Stay the shipper subject to the administrative fine of five hundred to ten thousand UFIR per infraction to the provisions of this Provisional Measure, to be enforced by the competent body, in the form of the regulation.

§ 1º Compete to the Ministry of Justice follow up with the fulfillment of the provisions of this Provisional Measure, by diligenising with the competent bodies the arrangements necessary for their compliance.

§ 2º The Ministry of Justice will be able to celebrate convents with organs of the administration for the exercise of the assignments provided for in this article.

Art. 5º Without prejudice to the previous article, in the hypotheses of infringement of the provisions of this Provisional Measure, the shipper will be obliged to indemnify the transporter in amount equivalent to double the value of the freight.

Art. 6º The competent bodies of the Executive Power, within the framework of their assignments, shall take the necessary arrangements, in thirty days, to compliance with the provisions of this Interim Measment.

Single paragraph. As of May 11, 2000, the shipper will henchforward to pre-empt the mandatory Valley-Pedagic to the carrier, in own model or in kind, regardless of the freight's value.

Art. 7º This Provisional Measure enters into vigour on the date of its publication.

Brasilia, May 2, 2000; 179º of Independence and 112º of the Republic.

Fernando Henrique Cardoso

José Gregori

Eliseu Padilha