DECREE NO 4,419, DE October 11, 2002

Approves the Regimental Framework and the Framework Demonstrative of the Cargos in Commission and the Gratified Functions of the National Institute of Social Insurance-INSS, and gives other arrangements.

THE PRESIDENT OF THE REPUBLIC, in the use of the attribution conferring you the art. 84, inciso VI, paragraph a, of the Constitution,

D E C R E T A:

Art. 1º Stay approved the Regimental Structure and the Demonstrative Framework of the Cargos in Commission and the Gratified Functions of the National Institute of Social Insurance-INSS in the form of Annexes I and II to this Decree.

Art. 2º The apostillations arising from the approval of the Regimental Structure of which it treats the art. 1º should occur within the period of twenty days, counted from the date of publication of this Decree.

Single Paragraph. After the apostillations provided for in the caput of this article, the Director-Chairman of the INSS shall publish, in the Official Journal of the Union, within sixty days, counted from the date of publication of this Decree, nominal relationship of the holders of the posts in committee of the Group-Direction and Higher Advisory-DAS, referred to in Annex II, indicating, inclusive, the number of vacant posts, their denomination and the respective level.

Art. 3º The internal regiment of the INSS shall be approved by the Minister of State for Social Welfare and Social Assistance and published in the Official Journal of the Union, within ninety days, counted from the date of publication of this Decree.

Art. 4º This Decree shall enter into force on the date of its publication.

Art. 5º Stay revoked the Decrees n 3,838, June 6, 2001, and 4,095, of January 22, 2002.

Brasilia, October 11, 2002 ; 181º of the Independence and 114º of the Republic.

FERNANDO HENRIQUE CARDOSO

Guilherme Gomes Dias

Joha Ness Eck

REGIMENTAL STRUCTURE

NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF THE SOCIAL INSURANCE-INSS

CHAPTER I

OF NATURE, HEADQUARTERS AND COMPETENCE

Art. 1º The National Institute of Social Insurance-INSS, federal municipality, based in Brasilia, linked to the Ministry of Social Welfare and Social Assistance, instituted on the basis of the provisions of the art. 17 of Law No. 8,029 of April 12, 1990, is for purpose:

I-promote the collection, supervision and collection of social contributions intended for the funding Social Security, in the form of the legislation in force ; and

II-promote recognition, by Social Security, of the right to receive benefits by she run, ensuring agility, amenity to her users and broadening of social control.

CHAPTER II

DA ORGANIZATIONAL STRUCTURE

Art. 2º The INSS has the following Organizational Framework:

I-collegiate body:

a) Colegiated Board ;

II-direct and immediate assistance organ to the Director-President:

a) Cabinet ; and

b) Solicitor-General;

III-sectional bodies:

a) Auditorial-Geral;

b) Directorate of Budget, Finance and Logistics ; and

c) Human Resources Directorate ;

IV-specific organs:

a) Directors of Benefits ; and

b) Director of Fundraising ;

V-units and decentralized bodies:

a) Superintendencies ;

b) Social Security Agencies ; and

c) Advanced Social Security Care Units ;

d) Generation-Executivas;

e) Regional Audits ; and

f) Courts of Tribunals.

CHAPTER III

DA DIRECTION AND APPOINTMENT

Art. 3º The INSS is directed by a Colegiated Directorate, a Director-Chair, four Directors and a Attorney General.

§ 1º The Director-Chair, the Directors and the Auditor-General shall be appointed by the President of the Republic

§ 2º The Prosecutor-General shall be appointed by the President of the Republic, by appointment of the Minister of State of Social Welfare and Social Assistance, with the prior annuence of the Advocate General of the Union.

§ 3º The Head of Cabinet, the Corregedor, the Coordinators-General, the Superintendents and the Coordinators will be appointed by the Minister of State for Social Welfare and Social Assistance, on the indication of the Director-President of the INSS.

§ 4º The Generates-Executives, of which it treats Annex II, will be appointed by the Minister of State for the Foresight and Social Welfare, and chosen, exclusively, in triplete list composed from internal selection process, which prioritize professional merit, in the form and conditions defined in ministerial portric, promoted upon accession spontaneous of the occupational servers of effective positions belonging to the INSS personnel framework.

§ 5º The positions in commission and the gratified functions of the General Managers-Executives, Agencies of Social Security and Advanced Social Welfare Service Units will be provided, exclusively, by occupant servers of effective positions belonging to the INSS personnel framework.

CHAPTER IV

OF THE COLLEGIATE BODY

The Composition and Health of the Colegiated Directorate

Art. 4º The Collegiate Board, consisting of six members, has the following composition:

I-Director-President;

II-Directors ; and

III-Prosecutor-General.

Art. 5º The Collegiate Board shall meet, ordinarily, once a month, at its headquarters and, extraordinarily, by convocation of its Director-Chairman or by solicitation of at least three members.

§ 1º Exceptionally, provided that superior reasons of technical convenience thus require it, the meetings will be able to occur outside the headquarters.

§ 2º The meetings of the Colegiated Board will be installed with the presence of at least three members, between them the Director-President or his legal substitute.

§ 3º In the impossibility of attending the meeting, the members of the Colegiated Board will be represented by their legal substitutes.

Art. 6º The deliberations of the Colegiated Board, in the form of resolutions and other normative acts, shall be taken by a majority of the votes of the gifts, observed the minimum quorum of three members.

§ 1º In the event of a tie, it is up to the Director-President, in addition to his vote, as a member of the Board Collegiate, the vote of quality.

§ 2º The member chairing meeting where the Director is absent shall exercise the right to vote once again, for appreciated matter.

§ 3º I am absent the Director-President, the appreciation of the matter will be overstated by the next meeting, when the quality vote by the Director-Chairman or Member who is presiding over it shall be delivered.

§ 4º I am departing or prevented the Director-Chairman, the member who is presiding over the meeting will immediately exercise the vote of quality.

§ 5º At the meetings installed will be admitted, to the requesting member, view of the subject matter of deliberation, for a period not exceeding that of the date of holding of the next ordinary meeting.

§ 6º The request for a view, formulated by one or more members present to the meeting, obliges the others to express and immediate expression on the exercise or waiver of the right to the request and, in relation to the absent member, if there is, the remittion of copies of the documents that make up the subject matter, with the consignment of the same deadline granted to the request.

§ 7º Installed ordinary meeting, immediately after the meeting in which it was admitted view, the subject will be, compulsorily, object of final deliberation, in case it has not been decided in extraordinary meeting.

§ 8º Initiated the vote on the matter, no request for a view will be admitted.

§ 9º It is not allowed for members to abstain in the vote on any matter.

CHAPTER V

DA COMPETENCY OF THE ORGANS

Section I

OF THE COLLEGIATE BODY

Art. 7º The Collegiate Board competes:

I-approve the plan of action and the annual budget proposal and its changes ;

II-examine and deliberate on the matters referred to it by the Director-Chairperson or by any of its members, issuing resolutions and exposing normative acts ;

III-decide on the disposal and acquisition of real estate, including on the acceptance of dation in payment or donation, with or without charge ;

IV-deliberating on:

a) the need and conditions of indirect execution of material activities, accessory or instrumental to those who make up the INSS legal mission, in the areas of medical expertise, active debt and non-operational real estate assets ; and

b) the indirect execution policy of the service users of the services, submitting to the approval of the National Social Security Council-CNPS those that are related to the collection of the pension revenue and the payment of the benefits ;

V-elaborate and disseminate half-yearly reports on the activities of the INSS, referring them to the Minister from State of the Welfare and Social Care and to the CNPS ;

VI-comply and enforce the standards on the collection, supervision and collection of the pension contributions, as well, to initial recognition, maintenance and revision of entitlement to the benefits pension benefits ;

VII-hire periodic external audits to analyze and deliver opinion on demonstratives Economic-financial and accounting, collection, collection and supervision of the pension contributions as well as, payment of the benefits, submitting the results obtained to the appreciation of the Minister of State for Welfare and Social Welfare and the CNPS, in accordance with the legislation in force ;

VIII-propose to the Minister of State for Social Welfare and Social Welfare the change of location, the extinction and installation of new Generations-Executives, Superintendencies and Regional Audits ;

IX-deliberation on the location and alteration of the linking of Social Security Agencies to the Management-Executives, and the Advanced Social Security Service Units Units to Social Security Agencies ;

X-deliberation on the allocation of competence to the Management-Executive for the execution of activities of general services, human resources, budget, finance and accounting, necessary for the operation of INSS organs and units, as well, on the management of the reception, distribution and execution of the litigation and the schedule of payment of precatory ;

XI-deliberation on the allocation of the posts in Project Manager and Manager's commission available in the collegiate ;

XII-to propose to the Minister of State for Welfare and Social Welfare the Internal Rules of the INSS and your eventual changes ;

XIII-deliberating on the standards of its operation, in the form of internal regiment ; and

XIV-exercise the functions assigned to it by the Minister of State for Welfare and Social assistance.

Single Paragraph. The provisions of inciso IX will observe the quantitative of Generation-Executives set out in Annex II.

Section II

DIRECT AND IMMEDIATE ASSISTANCE ORGANS TO THE DIRECTOR-PRESIDENT

Art 8º To the Cabinet of Director-President competes:

I-attend the Director-Chairman of the INSS in his political and social representation and occupy himself from the social communication and the preparation and dispatch of their administrative expedient ;

II-arrange for the official publication of the matters relating to the area of acting of the Director-President;

III-coordinating the schedule and drafting of the dispatches and hearings of the Director-President;

IV-arrange for the consultation of the consultations and the applications formulated by the National Congress, routed by the Ministry of Welfare and Social Assistance ; and

V-exercise other functions assigned to it by the Director-Chairperson.

Art. 9º To the Attorney General, the body linked to the Advocacy-General of the Union for the purposes of normative orientation and technical supervision, competes:

I-care for the observance of the Federal Constitution, the laws and acts emanating from the Public Powers, under the normative guidance of the Legal Consultation of the Ministry of Social Welfare and Social Welfare and Advocacy-General of the Union ;

II-represent, judicial and extrajudicially, the INSS and the institutions of which it is mandated or with which to maintain convenium ;

III-exercise the activities of consultancy and legal advising within the INSS, applying, in what couber, the provisions of art. 11 of Supplementary Law No. 73 of February 10, 1993 ;

IV-set the legal orientation of INSS, intervening in the elaboration and editing of its normative acts and interpretative, in articulation with the components organs of the Colegiated Directorate ;

V-orientar, monitor, evaluate and promote the ascertaining of liquidity and certainty of credits, of any nature, inherent in the activities of the INSS, by enrolling them in active debt, for the purposes of amicable or judicial collection ;

VI-coordinate and supervise, technically, the procuratorates ;

VII-plan and manage, in articulation with the Recovery Coordination-General Manager of the Previdential Credits, the inscription on the active debt, the friendly collection and judicial execution of the pension credits ;

VIII-plan and implement the specialization of management actions of the judicial collection of the active debt effected by their decentralized organs or by indirect performers ;

IX-manage the results of the lawsuits committed to indirect performers, concerning the administration of the INSS heritage ; and

X-propose to the Director-President the forwarding, to the Advocate-General of the Union, of request for determination of irregularities occurring within the internal framework of the Attorney General, without prejudice to the specific competence of the Auditorial-General.

Section III

DOS SECTIONAL ORGANS

Art. 10. À Auditoria-General competes:

I-plan, monitor, and control the development of preventive and corrective audits, inclusive, in the decentralized organs and units, in line with the management model by results ;

II-follow up the performance of the servers and leaders of the INSS bodies and units, scrutinizing and evaluating their functional conduct ;

III-to examine the relevance of the finding of complaints concerning the acting of the leaders and servers of INSS ;

IV-promote the establishment of trade unionists and disciplinary administrative proceedings ;

V-subsidizing the Coordination-General of Controller in the proposition of standards, systems and methods of evaluation and monitoring of the quality and productivity of INSS activities, as well, in the actions aimed at institutional administrative modernization ;

VI-propose to the Directorate Colegiated plans, programs and targets of technological innovation in processes and systems used by INSS, to be submitted to the Social Security and Social Welfare Technology and Information Committee ;

VII-propose to the Directorate Colegiated the forward, to the Ministry of Welfare and Assistance Social, of the location of Regional Audits ; and

VIII-propose to the Director-President the referral, to the Advocate-General of the Union, of request for determination of irregularities occurring within the internal framework of the Attorney General, without prejudice to the specific competence of the Prosecutor-General.

Art. 11. To the Directorate of Budget, Finance and Logistics competes:

I-propose to the Colegiated Directorate:

a) annual and multiannual plans and programmes of the areas of budget and finance, in joint with the Coordination-General of Controller ;

b) plans and revenue generation programs arising from the use or disposal of real estate assets non-operational ;

c) consolidation of the annual budget proposal, starting from the elaborate budget proposals by the organs of INSS ; investment plan in the conservation, expansion, acquisition or disposal of real estate assets belonging to INSS, used directly in its operational and administrative activities ; and

d) General guidelines, including quantitative and qualitative global targets, as to the use, maintenance and management of heritage and operational expenses, in line with the action plan approved by the Colegiated Directorate ;

II-consolidation, in articulation with the Coordination-General of Controlling, plans and programmes approved by the Colegiated Directorate, compatibilizing them with the budget ;

III-manage the physical-budgetary and financial execution of the established annual schedule, proposing, if necessary, corrective actions ;

IV-manage the decentralization of credits and resource transfer to the organs and for the decentralized units ;

V-evaluate, by means of the monitoring of the execution, the results obtained with the deployment of the annual and multi-annual plans and programmes for the areas of budget and finance, reconciling execution and its accounting ;

VI-exercising accounting management, accompanying the review and registration carried out by the organs and the decentralized units ;

VII-control the acts and facts arising from the budgetary, financial and heritage execution, and to draw up the demonstratives required by the legislation in force ;

VIII-elaborating demonstratives of the revenue and previdual expenses ;

IX-establish, in articulation with Auditorial-General, standards, systems and working methods aimed at the enhancement of INSS's financial, financial and accounting management systems ;

X-manage the acquisition, use and maintenance of movable goods, materials and services, in compliance with the established targets for operating expenses, adopting, if necessary, corrective actions ;

XI-manage the plans and programs concerning real estate assets, as well as administration carried out by indirect performers ;

XII-exercise the technical supervision of the internal management activities of the organs and units decentralized ; and

XIII-establish general guidelines for the design, suitability and evaluation of services provided.

Art. 12. To the Directorate of Human Resources competes:

I-propose to the Colegiated Directorate:

a) general guidelines for decentralized organs and units, as for preparation of plans, programs and goals of improvement, development and management of human resources ;

(b) general guidelines on the qualification of human resources linked to indirect performers of material, accessory or instrumental activity to those that make up the INSS legal mission ; and

c) guidelines regarding the human resource development and the administration of the general framework of personal of INSS ;

II-manage the plans and programs for improvement and development of human resources ;

III-manage the actions inherent in the administration of human resources ; and

IV-develop and maintain skill enrollment and managerial and operational potentials, in compliance with the management model for results.

Section IV

DOS SPECIFIC BODIES

Art. 13. To the Directorate of Fundraising competes:

I-plan and implement the specialization of revenue management actions of contributions previders ;

II-plan and implement the specialization of actions in economic segments, aimed at combating the sonegation and tax evasion, as well, to the speed on receipt of the pension credits ;

III-plan and manage, in articulation with the Recovery Coordination-General Manager of the Previdential Credits, the administrative collection of the pension credits ;

IV-develop analyses aimed at oscillations, variables and economic trends influencing the collection of the pension contributions, as well as exchange with government entities, national and international institutions ;

V-propose to the Colegiated Directorate:

a) the location and alteration of the linking of Social Security Agencies to the Management-Executives, and the Advanced Social Security Service Units Units to Social Security Agencies ;

b) the forwarding, the Ministry of Social Welfare and Social Assistance, of the location and installation of new Generations-Executives and Superintendencies ; and

c) the exchange with governmental entities, national and international institutions ;

VI-establish general guidelines for the development of plans, programs and targets of the fundraising activities, supervision and administrative collection of the previdual contributions exercised by the Generations-Executivas; and

VII-normatization, orientee and standardize the procedures of raising, supervision and charging.

Art. 14. To the Directorate of Benefits competes:

I-manage the recognition, by Social Security, of entitlement to receipt of benefits by she administered ;

II-develop analyses aimed at the improvement of the mechanisms of recognition of law by receipt of benefits ;

III-manage the activities of medical expertise and habilitation and professional rehabilitation, inclusive, those made by indirect performers ;

IV-propose to the Colegiated Directorate:

a) the location and alteration of the linking of Social Security Agencies to the Management-Executives, and the Advanced Social Security Service Units Units to Social Security Agencies ;

b) the forwarding, the Ministry of Social Welfare and Social Assistance, of the location and installation of new Generations-Executives and Superintendencies ; and

c) the exchange with governmental entities, national and international institutions ;

V-establish general guidelines for the development of plans, programs, and goals of activities of initial recognition, maintenance, and review of rights to the receipt of previdual benefits exercised by the Generals-Executivas; and

VI-orientate and standardize the initial recognition procedures, maintenance and review of rights to receive prevident benefits.

Section V

DAS JOINT COMPETENCIES OF THE SECTIONAL AND SPECIFIC BODIES

Art. 15. To the sectional and specific bodies, observed their areas of acting, competes, in common:

I-propose to the Colegiated Directorate:

a) guidelines for the elaboration of the INSS action plan and, as of its approval, its plans and programs ;

b) the forwarding, the Ministry of Social Welfare and Social Assistance, of legal instruments aiming for the improvement of legal performance, budgetary, financial, accounting and real estate assets, collection, supervision and administrative collection of the previdual contributions and initial recognition, maintenance and review of rights to receiving previdential benefits ;

c) the improvement and development of human resources ; and

d) plans, programs and technological innovation targets in processes and systems used in their activities, to be submitted to the Social Security and Social Information Technology and Information Committee, observed the specific competence of the Auditorial-General;

II-subsidizing the Coordination-General of Controller in the proposition of standards, systems and methods of evaluation and monitoring of the quality and productivity of their activities and services, as well, in the actions aimed at institutional administrative modernization, ressaved the specific competence of the Auditoria-General;

III-keep informed the Colegiated Directorate on:

a) the results of the legal charges arising from tax and tax autuals applicable legal devices, as well as of the technical-administrative litigation, especially, those arising from the administration of real estate ;

b) the results of preventive and corrective audits ;

c) the internal management actions ;

d) the collection, surveillance and collection actions ; and

e) the initial recognition actions, maintenance and review of rights to receipt of benefits previders ;

IV-provide the Coordination-General of Controller with the information necessary to follow up on results ;

V-systematization and disseminate standards and guidelines and subsidize the Information Coordination Institutional ;

VI-coordinate and supervise the Courts of Courts, Regional Audits, the activities of collection, supervision and administrative collection of the pension contributions, as well, the initial recognition, maintenance, and review of rights to the receipt of previdential benefits ;

VII-support the realisation of the internal selection process for the choice of occupants of the posts of Manager-Executive; and

VIII-make comply with the deliberations of the Colegiated Directorate.

Section VI

DAS UNITS AND DECENTRALIZED BODIES

Art. 16. The Superintendencies, subordinated to the Colegiated Directorate and with jurisdiction circumscribed to a Federation Unit, competes:

I-support the social media and political and social representation activities of the INSS, under the supervision of the incumbent unit of social media within the Ministry of Social Welfare and Social Assistance ;

II-promote the articulation between the Generations-Executives of their jurisdiction ;

III-subsidizing the Coordination-General of Controller in the exercise of its competencies ; and

IV-keep the Board of Directors informed about the results of the INSS actions, which they are assigned or requested.

Single Paragraph. In the Units of the Federation, where there are more than two Generations-Executives, a Superintendence can be found.

Art. 17. To Social Welfare Agencies and the Advanced Social Security Care Units competes to perform the collection and collection services of the pension contributions, as well, to carry out initial recognition, maintenance and review of rights to receipt of previdential benefits, ensuring agility and amenity to its users.

Art. 18. To Generations-Executives, subordinated directly to the Colegiated Directorate, competes:

I-supervise, within the framework of Social Security Agencies and Advance Units of Attention of the linked Social Security, the activities of:

a) collection and administrative collection of the prevident contributions ; and

b) initial recognition, maintenance and review of rights to receipt of benefits previders ;

II-ensure agility and amenity to users of INSS services as well as broaden control social, articulating with the Ouvidoria-General of Social Security, whose demands must receive preferential and priority care ;

III-within the scope of their procuratorates:

a) either to represent judicial or extrajudicially the INSS and the Institutions of which he is mandated or with which it maintains convenium, as well, when requested, before the organs of administrative jurisdiction, in the municipalities ;

b) engage in consulting and legal advice activities, applying, in what couber, the willing at art. 11 of Supplementary Law No. 73 of February 10, 1993 ; and

c) promote the ascertaining of the liquidity and certainty of the credits of any nature, inherent in the activities of the INSS, enrolling them in active debt, for the purposes of amicable or judicial collection ;

IV-support the management of the reception, distribution and execution of the litigation, as well, of the scheduling of the payment of precatories, depending on deliberation of the Colegiated Board ;

V-support and monitor, in the administrative plan, the activities of judicial representation or extrajudicial, consultancy and legal advising and ascertaining the liquidity and certainty of INSS credits ;

VI-run and supervise the surveillance activities ;

VII-intersect resources and offer counter-reasons to the Board of Appeal Board and Judgment Chambers of the Social Welfare Resources Board-CRPS ; and

VIII-perform the activities of general services, human resources, and budget and finance necessary for the operation of organs and units of the INSS, depending on the deliberation of the Colegiated Board.

§ 1º To Managers-Executives competes, still, to supervise, support and control the units of service linked to them, consisting of companies, municipal prefectures and other public and community actors.

§ 2º Compete to the Management-Executive, located in the capital, in the Federation Unit in which there is even two Generations-Executives, support the social communication and political and social representation activities of the INSS, under the supervision of the incumbent unit of the media within the Ministry of Social Welfare and Social Assistance.

Art. 19. Regional Audits, subordinated directly to the Auditorial-General, competes:

I-follow up and perform preventive and corrective audits in the organs and units decentralized ;

II-monitor the performance of the servers and leaders in the decentralised bodies and units, fiscalizing and evaluating their functional conduct ;

III-define on the relevance of the indication of complaints concerning the performance of the leaders and servers of INSS ; and

IV-promote the establishment of trade unionists and disciplinary administrative proceedings.

Art. 20. To the Tribunal's Goods, located in municipality-headquarters of the Federal Regional Court, subordinated directly to the Prosecutor-General, competes:

I-monitor the judicial proceedings within the Federal Regional Court, the Regional Court of Labour and the Court of Justice, in the Unit of the Federation in which they are located ; and

II-establish uniformity of procedures in the processes of interest of the INSS that tramway in degree of appeal before the Courts to which the previous incision refers.

Single Paragraph. In the Federation Unit where there is no Tribunal Prosecutor's Office, the competencies provided for in the inciso I shall be exercised by General-Executive located in the capital.

Section VII

DAS COMMON COMPETENCIES OF THE UNITS AND DECENTRALIZED BODIES

Art. 21. To decentralized units and bodies competes, in common:

I-provide the Coordination-General of Controller with the information necessary to follow up on results ;

II-make comply with the deliberations of the Colegiated Directorate ; and

III-subsidizing the Coordination of Institutional Information.

CHAPTER VI

DAS ASSIGNMENTS OF DIRECTORS

Section I

DO DIRETOR-PRESIDENT

Art. 22. To the Director-President it is incumbent:

I-represent the INSS in judgment or outside it ;

II-convene and chair the meetings of the Colegiated Board ;

III-comply and enforce the decisions of the Colegiated Board ;

IV-decide, ad referendum of the Colegiated Directorate, the questions of urgency ;

V-decide, in the event of a tie, in the deliberations of the Colegiated Board ;

VI-nominating and exonerating servers, providing the effective posts and, as ministerial delegation, the in commission and gratified functions, as well as exercise disciplinary power under the legislation in force ;

VII-refer to the Ministry of Social Welfare and Social Assistance proposals for legal instruments approved by the Colegiated Directorate and the documents and reports that should be submitted to the CNPS ;

VIII-refer to the Minister of State for Welfare And Social Assistance list treble to appointment of Generates-Executivos;

IX-refer to the Minister of State for Social Welfare and Social Assistance, after approval of the Collegiate Board:

a) the proposals for changing the location and installation of new Generations-Executives, Supervisors and Regional Audits ;

(b) the proposals for amendments to the Rules of Procedure of the INSS ; and

c) the proposals for plans, programs and targets for technological innovation in processes and systems used by INSS, to be submitted to the Social Security and Welfare Information Committee and Social Assistance ;

X-forward to the Advocate-General of the Union request for the ascertainment of irregularities occurring in the internal scope of the Prosecutor-General ;

XI-send the accountability to the Ministry of Social Welfare and Social Assistance for the purposes of forwarding to the Union Accounts Tribunal ;

XII-signing contracts, arrangements, agreements and adjustments, as well as order expenses ; and

XIII-exercising the hierarchical command within the framework of the National Social Insurance Institute.

Section II

TOO MANY LEADERS

Art. 23. The Directors, the Attorney General, the Chief of Staff, the Auditor-General, the Superintendents, the Generates-Executives, the Auditor-Regional and the Heads, it is incumbent on planning, directing, coordinating, guiding, monitoring and evaluating the execution of the activities affectionate to the respective units and to exercise other assignments that are committed to them, in their areas of acting, by the Colegiated Directorate.

CHAPTER VII

DAS GENERAL AND TRANSITIONAL PROVISIONS

Art. 24. The standards of organisation and operation of the organs and units of the INSS Regimental Structure shall be established in the Rules of Procedure.

Art. 25. The occupants of posts in commission and fulfilling functions will be replaced, in their fallout and impediments, in the form of the Internal Rules.