Brazil's Provisional Measure 795/2017 was converted into Law 13.586/2017 as published in the Official Gazette on 29 December 2017. Provisional Measure 795/2017, originally published 18 August 2017, established a new special tax regime for the oil and natural gas sector effective 1 January 2018 ({News-2017-08-29/A/2-previous coverage}).