With the New Agreement, there are BRL 170 billion for definitive reparation.
Last update: 22 de January de 2026
The New Rio Doce Agreement accumulates concrete progress in reparation and compensation measures. Until September 30, 2025, they were:
Consolidating the actions of the first year of the New Rio Doce Agreement with the nine previous years of reparation, there are BRL 68.4 billion effectively allocated between 2015 and 2025, materializing the premise of the New Agreement: to provide continuity to ongoing actions and conclude the definitive reparation.
We regret the Fundão rupture and reaffirm our commitment to ensuring full and definitive reparation. The New Rio Doce Agreement represents a significant advancement by bringing more clarity, legal certainty, effectiveness, and finality to the reparation.
Rodrigo Vilela | CEO of Samarco
The New Rio Doce Agreement, unanimously approved by the Supreme Federal Court on November 6, 2024, was signed by Samarco, its shareholders, the Union, the Governments of Minas Gerais and Espírito Santo, Federal and State Public Prosecutor’s Offices, and Federal and State Public Defender’s Offices (MG and ES), among other public bodies. The extinct Renova Foundation signed as an intervening/consenting party.
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With the New Agreement, there are BRL 170 billion for definitive reparation.
BRL 100 billion, of which BRL 10.9 billion was transferred until September 2025.
Samarco initiated the transfers of the values stipulated for federal, state, and municipal governments, enabling public policies in health, infrastructure, sanitation, and social programs. The resources will be transferred over 20 years.
BRL 32 billion, of which BRL 19.5 billion was transferred until September 2025.
The amount is being allocated to Samarco’s direct actions across three pillars: payment of individual indemnities, completion of resettlements, and environment.
BRL 38 billion executed by September 2024.
The amount was allocated to reparation and compensation actions through 42 programs executed by the extinct Fundação Renova.
The liquidation and dissolution of Fundação Renova were completed, with authorization from the Public Prosecutor’s Office of the State of Minas Gerais (MPMG), registration with the competent registry offices, and deregistration of the respective CNPJ registrations.
The dam rupture is a milestone that will never be forgotten, which imposed on us a deep reflection on our purpose and our practices. Samarco’s history has a “before and after” the Fundão Dam rupture, which led us to revise our organizational culture, management systems, and our relationship with people.
We resumed our operations in 2020 with a new integrated safety system, reinforced by the implementation of the Monitoring and Inspection Center (CMI), which operates uninterruptedly — 24 hours a day, 7 days a week — and features over 2,000 pieces of equipment, such as surface radars, piezometric sensors, and drones.
The Monitoring and Inspection Center (CMI) centralizes the continuous monitoring of geotechnical structures, stores data from high-precision instruments and equipment, and integrates this information with manual inspections conducted in the field.
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