RIO DE JANEIRO (AP) — Brazil’s president used her veto power to slash through the new Forest Code, making the environmental law a little tougher on large agricultural interests by strengthening reforestation requirements along river banks, a decree published by the government said Thursday.

President Dilma Rousseff’s goal was to recover some of the elements that were in the original legislation but were lost as it made its way through the House and Senate, and thus “maintain the balance between social and environmental” needs in the countryside, Environmental Minister Izabella Teixeira said.