The Social and Environmental Audit Portal is a platform for the dissemination of information, produced by the audit, related to the progress of the social and environmental reparation and compensation actions defined in the Judicial Agreement for Full Reparation.

The Judicial Agreement for Integral Reparation (AJRI, or Agreement) is an instrument signed on February 4, 2021, with the State of Minas Gerais, the Public Prosecutor's Office of the State of Minas Gerais (MPMG), the Public Defender's Office of the State of Minas Gerais (DPMG), the Federal Public Prosecutor's Office (MPF), and VALE S.A. (VALE) as Parties. The purpose of the Agreement is to define the obligations to be made and/or paid by VALE, aiming at the full reparation of the damages, negative impacts and socio-environmental and socio-economic losses caused as a result of the rupture of dams B-I, B-IV and B-IVA at the Córrego do Feijão mine, in Brumadinho/MG, which occurred in January 2019, and its consequences.

The Judicial Agreement for Full Reparation establishes VALE's obligations for full reparation of the damages and impacts resulting from the collapse of the dams in Brumadinho, on January 25, 2019. The Agreement divides VALE's obligations into "Obligations to do", which is when the company is responsible for executing the actions, and "Obligations to pay", when the company is responsible for making payments for another party to perform the actions. With regard to the measures for full socio-environmental reparation of the impacts and damages resulting from the breach, the Agreement defines that it is VALE's obligation to do so, and the amounts spent for the full socio-environmental reparation and the projects related to them, with the exception of environmental compensation, were not considered for the purposes of calculating the ceiling value of the Agreement. It also provides for the performance of independent external audits to evaluate the development and execution of the projects provided for in the Agreement, considering the adequacy of the objectives, goals, results, schedule and technical adequacy in relation to the technical norms and standards established. The parameters used for the purpose of verifying the discharge of full socio-environmental recovery obligations shall be those provided for in the Brazilian standards and indicators defined in the Socio-environmental Reparation Plan, being prepared by a contractor, funded and under the responsibility of VALE, in administrative proceedings, after approvals by the National Environmental System (SISEMA) and validations by the Parties, with the support of the Socio-environmental Audit, ensuring the effectiveness of viable technical and environmental measures.

The Social and Environmental Audit audits the development of studies, plans, projects and the execution of actions, by VALE, related to the programs of Annexes II.1 and II.2 of the Agreement, with Annex II.1 dealing with social and environmental recovery and Annex II.2 dealing with social and environmental compensation for damages already known. It is the responsibility of the Social and Environmental Audit to evaluate the scopes, objectives, execution of the agreed projects and the expected results. The Social and Environmental Audit issues monthly reports and technical opinions to support the analysis and decision of SISEMA and the Parties under the Agreement. On a monthly basis, the Social and Environmental Audit presents to the Parties to the Agreement the results of the projects and actions being carried out by VALE, defined in Annexes II.1 and II.2.

The Social and Environmental Audit does not carry out inspection and management activities. The duties of the Audit are related to the audit and analysis of the adequacy, effectiveness and achievement of the expected results, of the plans, projects, programs and actions, and the results of this audit are reported monthly for knowledge and possible decision-making and deliberations of the State bodies and Parties to the Agreement.

The socio-environmental audit does not approve projects, does not authorize and supervises the execution of projects and works, does not release payments, does not have the attribution to paralyze the execution of projects or works and does not grant discharge to the programs provided for in the Judicial Agreement for Integral Reparation.

AECOM has been auditing the development of the Human Health Risk and Ecological Risk Study (ERSHRE) since its inception. In 2021, the Agreement defined the continuity of the ERSHRE contracted and funded by VALE, as well as the continuity of the independent audit under the terms of the Term of Commitment signed by the Public Prosecutor's Office of Minas Gerais and VALE on February 15, 2019, in compliance with the standards, guidelines, indicators and methodology already approved by the Ministry of Health and other competent public agencies.

The information generated by the Social and Environmental Audit during the monitoring of projects and activities related to the Agreement's programs is consolidated in monthly audit reports. These reports detail the execution of projects and actions, according to the parameters established by the Parties, and are available for consultation on the Social and Environmental Audit Portal in the Documents section.

Documents authored by the Audit are available on the Socio-Environmental Audit Portal, such as Monthly Reports and Technical Notes required by State and Contracting Agencies, as well as documents related to the independent opinions developed by the Audit. At the request of the Pro-Brumadinho Committee, the Socio-Environmental Audit Portal also provides access to the already validated chapters of the Socio-Environmental Comprehensive Recovery Plan for the Paraopeba River basin, and to the validated documents related to the Human Health Risk and Ecological Risk Study.

Access the Documents section and use the filters Legal Instrument, Theme, Type, Author and Date to find a specific document. You can also search for a specific text in the search field. In this case, all documents containing the text sought will be listed.

On the Portal's home page, click on the "Audit Documents" section. Identify yourself by informing your CPF and date of birth, read and accept the Terms of Use and then click on "Access".

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The indicators provided for in the Agreement and disclosed by the Social and Environmental Audit are the metrics used to measure the effectiveness of the actions of full reparation, compensation for the impacts and socio-environmental damages already known resulting from the rupture of dams B-I, B-IV and B-IVA at the Córrego do Feijão mine, in Brumadinho/MG. The Agreement provides for different metrics to assess compliance with the obligations to do in Annexes II.1 and II.2 and the Human Health Risk and Ecological Risk Assessment Studies.

Currently, the definition of the socio-environmental reparation indicators is under discussion between the Parties to the Agreement. When established, the monitoring of these indicators can be accessed on the Portal's home page, by clicking on the "Indicators" section.

The Judicial Agreement for Full Reparation was signed on February 4, 2021 by the State of Minas Gerais, the Public Prosecutor's Office of Minas Gerais (MPMG), the Federal Public Prosecutor's Office (MPF), the Public Defender's Office of Minas Gerais (DPMG) and VALE.

The indicators defined in the Social and Environmental Reparation Plan are metrics that will be used to measure the effectiveness of the actions for full social and environmental reparation of the impacts and damages resulting from the collapse of dams B-I, B-IV and B-IVA at the Córrego do Feijão mine, in Brumadinho/MG.