Accreditation

The UN are responsible for accrediting all attendants of events in Riocentro, official venue of the conference.

Member states accreditation

Officials of Member States to the United Nations, observers/intergovernmental organizations and specialized agencies are urged to submit their pre-accreditation requests to the United Nations Protocol and Liaison Service in New York by 30 May 2012. For more information including the pre-accreditation form, please access the UN official website for Rio+20.

Registration and pre-accreditation by major groups

The civil society (divided by the UN into 9 major groups) may find detailed information about accreditation on the UN official website for Rio+20.

Press accreditation

Press accreditation is strictly reserved for professionals of this sector: print media, photography, radio, television,, news agencies and online media.

The UN has already opened pre-accreditation to members of the press. For more information and pre-accreditation form, access the UN official website.

The deadline is 14th May, 2012.
After this period, it will only be possible to get accredited on-site (at pavillion 1 of Riocentro convention center), after 07th June, 2012.

Nevertheless, the UN urge all participants to choose pre-accreditation, so as to expedite the whole process.

Instructions for the Accreditation of Automobiles and Mobile Journalism Units

In order to have access to the areas allotted to press automobiles at Riocentro and at the parking lot of the Mobile Journalism Units (UMJs) during the United Nations Conference on Sustainable Development (Rio+20), the accreditation must be requested by means of a specific form (Form F), available at the following link:

http://www.rio20.gov.br/documentos/formulario-de-credenciamento-de-veiculos.

The form must be electronically filled in, signed and sent to the e-mail:

rio20.transporte@itamaraty.gov.br until May 31st, at the latest.

If the vehicle to be accredited is a UMJ, it will count with a differentiated parking place in relation to the other press vehicles. In this case, please indicate the brand (‘Marca’) and model (‘Modelo’) of the vehicle in the form.

The assigned credentials will be handed over by the Coordination of Transportation of the Brazilian Committee of Rio+20 (‘Coordenação de Transportes do Comitê Nacional de Organização da Rio+20’), starting on June 4, at the following address: Rua Chile, n° 330, ed. Ventura – Leste, 21° andar.

Assistance for media professionals at the international airports and clearance of equipment

A special Immigration and Customs scheme at the international airports in Rio de Janeiro and São Paulo has been established to assist official delegations and accredited media professionals who will be covering the United Nations Conference for Sustainable Development (Rio+20).

At the arrival areas, there will be Press Officers trained to help media professionals with Immigration and Customs formalities, as well as with any questions pertaining to those areas.

The email address rio20.press@itamaraty.gov.br has also been set up to exclusively provide useful traveling information to the foreign press. Media professionals can write to the above address, provide name, equipment information and flight arrival, and expedite Customs formalities. Any questions about immigration procedures can also be sent to the same email address.

For general press information, please write to rio20.imprensa@itamaraty.gov.br.

Brazilian Regulation RFB n° 1.269, dated May 16 2012, defines preferential clearance norms for the equipment of media professionals, provided that they are not permanent residents in Brazil and have been accredited by the UN to cover the Rio+20 Conference. The media professional may have the equipment cleared under the temporary admission regime by filling out duplicate copies of a customs declaration form (Form A), whereby brand, model and other specifications must be provided.

A sample of the Brazilian customs declaration form (“Formulário A”) is available.