The Report on the Practice of Brazil (1997) considers that the provision in Brazil’s Military Penal Code which punishes the excessive execution of an order is relevant in the context of the principle of proportionality. 

The Report on the Practice of Brazil states that the principle of proportionality binds Brazil, since Brazil has ratified the 1949 Geneva Conventions and their 1977 Additional Protocols, and according to the Constitution of Brazil, international treaties are automatically applicable once ratified and published in the official journal.