"This law approaches the issues regarding forests in the Brazilian territory, as well as other forms of vegetation; defines the Legal Amazon, the property rights and use restrictions for some regions that include these vegetation types, and the criteria for suppression and use of native vegetation; and the areas for permanent protection. It also defines the areas that are legally allowed to be deforested, specific to each biome - currently, in the case of the Amazon, it is allowed to deforest up to 20% of the property. The Forest Code had some modifications and some parts were reviewed and changed since its creation (1965), and is currently going through another process of revision. Brazil requires anyone owning more than 50 hectares of rural land to make sure that a certain number of hectares are set aside in a Reserva Legal. The percentage required to be set aside varies from as little as 20 % to as much 80 %, depending on the biome."