DECREE NO. 5,870, OF August 8, 2006.

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

THE PRESIDENT OF THE REPUBLIC, in the use of the assignments that gives him the art. 84, incisos IV and VI, paragraph "a" of the Constitution, and with a view to the provisions of the art. 136 of the Provisional Measure no 301, of June 29, 2006,

DECRETA:

Art. 1st Stay approved the Regimental Structure and the Demonstrative Table of the Cargos in Commission, of the Functions Gratified and the Commissioned Functions of the National Institute of Social Insurance-INSS, in the form of the Annexes I and II.

Art. 2nd Out of the provisions of the art. 1st, stay remanded, in the form of Annex III, the following posts in committee of the Group-Direction and Superiors Superiors-DAS:

I-of the Management Office, of the Ministry of Planning, Budget and Management, for the INSS: two DAS 102.4, one DAS 102.3, three DAS 102.2 and six DAS 102.1; and

II-from the INSS to the Secretariat of Management, of the Ministry of Planning, Budget and Management: two DAS 101.4, fourteen DAS 101.3 and five DAS 101.1.

Art. 3rd Stay incorporated into the Regimental Structure of which it treats this Decree one thousand and seventy six FCINSS-1, one hundred and fifty and one FCINSS-2 and one hundred FCINSS-3, the one that refers to art. 136 of the Provisional Measure no 301, of June 29, 2006.

Art. 4th The apostille arising from the approval of the Regimental Structure of which it treats art. 1st should occur within twenty days, counted from the date of publication of this Decree.

Paragraph single. After the apostilaments provided for in the caput, the President of the INSS shall publish in the Official Journal of the Union, within thirty days, counted from the date of publication of this Decree, nominal relation of the holders of the posts in committee of the Group-Direction and Top Aides -DAS and the Commissioned Functions of INSS-FCINSS, referred to in Annex II, indicating, including, the number of vacant posts and functions, their denomination and their respective level.

Art. 5th The internal regiment of the INSS will be approved by the Minister of State for Social Welfare and published in the Official Journal of the Union, within ninety days, counted from the date of publication of this Decree.

Art. 6th This Decree comes into effect on the date of its publication, producing effects from August 18, 2006.

Art. 7th Stay revoked the Decree no 5,513, of August 16, 2005.

Brasilia, August 8, 2006; 185th of Independence and 118th of the Republic.

LUIZ INACIO LULA DA SILVA

Bernardo Silva

Nelson Machado

This text does not replace the one published in the D.O.U. of 8/9/2006.

ANNEX I

STRUCTURE REGIMENTAL NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF SOCIAL INSURANCE

CHAPTER I

DA NATURE, HEADQUARTERS AND COMPETENCE

Art. 1st The National Institute of Social Insurance-INSS, federal municipality, based in Brasilia-Federal District, bound by the Ministry of Social Welfare, instituted on the grounds of the provisions of the art. 17 of the Act No. 8,029 of April 12, 1990, is for the purpose of promoting recognition, by Social Security, of right to the receipt of benefits by it administered, ensuring agility, convenience to its users and extension of the social control.

CHAPTER II

OF THE ORGANIZATIONAL STRUCTURE

Art. 2nd The INSS has the following organizational structure:

I-direct assistance organ and immediate to the President: Cabinet;

II-sectional bodies:

a) Federal Prosecutor's Office Specialized:

1. Regional Procuratorates; and

2. Sectional Goods;

b) Corregedoria-Geral;

c) Auditoria-Geral;

d) Directorate of Budget, Finance, and Logistics; and

e) Directorate of Human Resources;

III-specific organ-specific organs:

a) Direction of Benefits; and

b) Direction of Call;

IV-units and decentralized organs:

a) Regional Generences;

b) Generences-Executives;

c) Social Security Agencies;

d) Social Security Agencies of Benefits by Incapacity;

e) Social Welfare Agencies of Judicial Demands;

f) Regional audits; and

g) Corregedorias Regional.

CHAPTER III

DA DIRECTION AND NOMINATION

Art. 3rd The INSS is directed by a President and four Directors, appointed in the form of the legislation.

Art. 4th The nominations for the positions in committee, the commissioned functions and the gratified functions integral to the regimental structure of the INSS will be effected in compliance with the current legislation.

§ 1st The Managers-Executives will be chosen, exclusively, in a quadruple list composed from the process of internal selection, which prioritizes professional merit, in the form and conditions set in ministerial porterium, promoted upon spontaneous adherence of the occupying servants of effective office, belonging to the personnel framework of the INSS or the Ministry of the Social Security, and of the federal prosecutors in office in the Federal Prosecutor's Office Specialized with the INSS.

§ 2nd positions in committee and the gratified roles integral to Regional Generations, of the Managers-Executive and Social Security Agencies, fixed and mobile, will be provided, exclusively, by occupant servers of effective office belonging to the personnel framework of the INSS or the Ministry of Social Welfare.

§ 3rd The positions in commission, the commissioned functions and the gratified functions, of a juridical nature, within the framework of the Specialized Federal Prosecutor's Office will be provided by members of the Federal Attorney General and, exceptionally, of the Advocate General of the Union, in the form of the caput, heard the Chief Prosecutor.

§ 4th The remaining positions in committee, the commissioned functions and the gratified functions within the framework of the Prosecutor's Office Federal Specialized will be provided by public servants occupiers of effective office, appointed by the President, heard the Chief Prosecutor.

CHAPTER IV

DAS COMPETENCES OF THE ORGANS

Section I

From the Direct Assistance Organs and Immediate to the President

Art. 5th To the Cabinet competes:

I-attend the President of the INSS in his political representation and social and to occupy yourself with the media and the preparation and dispatch of your administrative expedient;

II-arrange for the official publication of the subjects related to the acting area of the President;

III-coordinate the scheduling and drafting of the President's Tariff of dispatches and audiences;

IV-arrange for the fulfillment of applications and queries coming from the National Congress and forwarded by the Ministry of Social Welfare;

V-coordinate and follow up the flow of entry and exit of the institutional documents of responsibility of the President; and

VI- exercise other duties assigned to it by the President.

Section II

Of The Sectional Organs

Art. 6th To The Federal Specialized Prosecutor's Office, the enforcement body of the Federal Attorney General, competes:

I-represent judicial and extrajudicially the INSS and other entities, upon designation of the Federal Prosecutor-General's Office;

II-ensure adherence to the Constitution, laws and acts emanating by the Public Powers, under the guidance normative of the Federal Attorney General's Office and the Advocate General of the Union;

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

IV-set the legal guidance of the INSS, intervening in the elaboration and editing of its normative and interpretative acts, in articulation with the component organs of the INSS;

V-coordinate and supervise, technically and administratively, the Regional and Sectional Goods;

VI-forwarded to the Federal Attorney General or the Advocate General of the Union, as the case, request for ascertaining of functional lack practiced, in the exercise of its assignments, by its respective members; and

VII-forwarded to the proposed President structuring and location of the Regional and Sectional Procuratorates, heard beforehand the Federal Attorney General.

Art. 7th To Regional Procuratorates compete:

I-when they act together the second-grade organ, follow up with the legal proceedings within the Federal Regional Court and the Regional Uniformization Turma of the respective Federal Special Juised, as well as from the Regional Labour Court, the Court of Justice and the Recursal Class of the Juized Special Federal in your area of acting, in addition to establishing uniformity of procedures in the processes of interest of the INSS that tramway on a degree of appeal in the face of these judicial bodies;

II-when they act together with the first-degree judicial organ, represent the INSS and other entities, upon designation of the Federal Prosecutor's Office; and

III-exercise the consulting activities and legal advising to the INSS and the entities designated by the Federal Attorney General, applying, in what couber, the provisions of the art. 11 of the Supplementary Act no 73, from 1993.

Art. 8th The Sectional Goods competes to represent judicial and extrajudicially the INSS and other entities, upon designation of the Federal Attorney General, in addition to carrying out legal consulting and advising activities, applying, in what couber, the willing in the art. 11 of the Supplementary Act No 73, from 1993

Art. 9th À Corregedoria-General competes:

I-follow up on the performance of the servers and leaders of the INSS organs and units, scrutinizing and evaluating their functional conduct;

II-analyze the relevance of complaints concerning the acting of the INSS leaders and servers;

III- promote the establishment of syndications and disciplinary administrative proceedings;

IV- judge the servers of the INSS in disciplinary administrative processes, when the proposed penalty is of warning;

V-propose integrated actions with other organs for combat fraud;

VI-planning, coordinating, guiding and overseeing the activities of the Regional Corregedorias, disciplinary commissions, syndications and Ethics Commissions;

VII-promoting studies for the elaboration of norms, in their area of acting;

VIII-forwarding to the Directorate of Budget, Finance and Logistics processes for taking special accounts;

IX-propose to the President the forwarding to the Federal Attorney General and the Advocate-General of the Union of application for a brokerage in the Federal Prosecutor's Office Specialized or ascertaining of functional lack practiced, in the exercise of its assignments, by its members;

X-propose to the President the establishment of Ethics Commissions within each Regional Managment and Executive Management, as well as to promote the administration, installation and coordination of the matters pertinent to those; and

XI-forward to the proposed President of structuring and location of the Regional Corregedorias.

Art. 10. The Auditoria-General competes:

I-plan, follow up, and control the development of preventive and corrective audits, identifying and assessing risks, recommending preventive and corrective actions to the decentralized organs and units, in line with the management model by results;

II-subsidize the President and the Directors with information about the audits and their results, with views to the improvement of audit and management procedures of the INSS;

III-subsidize the Call Board 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;

IV-propose to the President, in articulation with the Coordination-General of Information Technology, plans, programs and targets of technological innovation in processes and systems used by the INSS;

V- evaluate the internal controls of management as to their effectiveness, efficiency, effectiveness and economicity, resguarding the interests of the INSS;

VI-forwarding to the Corregedoria-General request for accountability ascertaining, when in its activity evidenced irregularity passable under the aspect discipline, indicating with clarity the irregular fact;

VII-get together with external sources information to confirm the fidedignity of the evidence obtained internally;

VIII- follow up and evaluate the effectiveness of activities conducted at the INSS, for the planning, execution and improvement of integrated operations with other bodies of the Public Administration, as well as proposing, when necessary, corrective measures;

IX-keep track of the execution of the INSS Action Plan and request effective actions from the areas for your due fulfillment;

X-analyze and forward to the demonstrative President and reports of provision of INSS accounts;

XI-forwarding to the proposed President structuring and location of the Regional Audits; and

XII-produce knowledge about vulnerabilities and illicit acts concerning the acting area of the INSS, upon the use of researches and analysis techniques.

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

I-plan, coordinate, control, guide, normatize and supervise the activities related to the areas of logistics, bidding and contracts, engineering, heritage, budget, finance and accounting;

II-submit to the proposed President of:

a) annual and multi-annual plans and programs of the areas of budget and finance;

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

c) consolidation of the annual budget proposal, from the propositions elaborated by the organs of the INSS, as well as investment plan for the conservation, expansion, acquisition or disposal of real estate assets owned by INSS, used directly in their operational and administrative activities;

d) general guidelines, inclusive of quantitative and qualitative global targets, as to utilization, maintenance and management of equity and operating expenses, in line with the plan of action approved by the President;

e) guidelines for the celebration of congeniums and contracts with financial institutions and too many paying agents; and

f) criteria for the improvement of controls and security on the physical and financial flows of the payment of benefits, by means of financial institutions and the remaining paying agents;

III-consolidate plans and programs approved by the President, compatibilizing them with the budget;

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

V-manage the decentralization of credits and transfer of resources to the organs and to the decentralized units;

VI-evaluate, by means of the follow-up of the execution, the results obtained with the implantation of the plans and programs annual and multi-annual for the areas of budget and finance, reconciling the execution and its accounting;

VII-exercise accounting management, tracking the review and writing carried out by the organs and the decentralized units;

VIII-control the acts and facts arising from the budgetary, financial and heritage execution and draw up the demonstratives required by the current legislation;

IX-draw up demonstratives of the revenue and pension expenses, within the framework of its competence;

X-establish standards, systems and working methods aimed at the enhancement of the INSS budget, financial and accounting management systems;

XI-manage the acquisition, use and maintenance of movable property, materials and services, in line with the targets set for the operating expenses, adopting, if required, corrective actions;

XII-manage the plans and programs pertaining to assets real estate, as well as the administration effectuated by indirect executors;

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

XIV-manage the information on benefit payments, promoting the comparative analysis of physical and financial flows;

XV-follow compliance with the clauses of the convents and contracts entered into with the network of service providers of benefits payments administered by the INSS;

XVI-institute of the Tomada commissions of Special Accounts; and

XVII-carry out the activities of general and budget services, finance and accounting necessary for the operation of the central administration of the INSS and in the centralized hiring.

Art. 12. To the Human Resources Directorate competes:

I-propose to the President, in articulation with the too much Directorias:

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

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

c) guidelines and parameters regarding the profile and the lotation of the servers for the human resources development and for the administration of the general staff framework of the INSS;

II-propose guidelines and manage the actions inherent in the administration and development of people;

III-manage the plans and programs of empowerment and development of human resources and evaluate their results;

IV-judging the servers of the INSS in disciplinary administrative processes, when the proposed penalty is of suspension up to thirty days;

V-approve:

a) the participation of servers in the Post-Graduate Program, under the INSS; and

b) the capacity-building actions nationwide;

VI-decide on resources interposed by servers against administrative decisions rendered by the Managers-Executives;

VII-support the areas of the INSS in the Lifting of the Needs of Empowerment-LNC, in order to subsidize the elaboration of the Annual Capacitation Plan; and

VIII- perform the personnel administration actions within the framework of the central administration of the INSS.

Section III

Dos Singular Specific Organs

Art. 13. To the Board of Benefits competes:

I-manage:

a) the recognition by the Social Security of right to the receipt of benefits by this administered;

b) the activities of medical expertise, of professional rehabilitation and social service, inclusive of effected by indirect performers; and

c) the operationalization of the pension compensation between the General Social Welfare Regime and other provident schemes;

II-develop studies aimed at the improvement of the right recognition mechanisms in receipt of benefits;

III-propose to the President the exchange with government entities and national and international institutions;

IV-establish general guidelines for the development of plans, programs, and goals of the activities of initial recognition, maintenance, resource and review of rights to the receipt of pension and assistive benefits, medical expertise, professional rehabilitation and social service, as well as those regarding the previdential compensation, exercised by the Managers-Executives;

V-normatization, guide and standardize the procedures of initial recognition, maintenance, resource and review of rights to the receipt of previdential and assistive benefits, consignment in benefits, internal control of benefits, medical expertise, professional rehabilitation and social service; e

VI-subsidizing the exchange shares with public and private entities, in due of programs and projects, aiming at the dissemination of institutional information.

Art. 14. The Directorate of Service competes:

I-ensure the quality of the services provided to the users of the INSS;

II-coordinate the direct and remote listening actions to users of the services of the INSS;

III-coordinate the strategy of spreading information to the network of listening;

IV-standardize the procedures of the listening network;

V-coordinate and supervise the services of support and maintenance of informatics to the listening network of the INSS;

VI-promoting the technical studies and actions for the expansion, classification and diversification of the fulfillment network, including suitability in the number of fulfillment units;

VII-affer the performance of the fulfillment network and its managers;

VIII-coordinate the management of the partnerships and arrangements related to the user care, without prejudice to the attributions of the Directorate of Budget, Finance and Logistics and the Board of Benefits;

IX-propose to the President:

a) patterns, systems, and methods of evaluation and monitoring of quality and productivity;

b) criteria for localization, alteration and installation of the Social Security Agencies, fixed and mobile, and das Management-Executives;

c) guidance programs to users of the Welfare services Social;

d) criteria for the purposes of benchmarking institutional performance of the Management-Executives and the Agencies; and

and) the dispatch of normative acts for guidance and uniformity of procedures and standards of supervision of network activities;

X-follow the results obtained with the application of the standards, systems and methods of productivity and quality assessment and recommend actions of improvements and capacity-building of human resources;

XI-subsidize the Ouvidoria-General of Social Security in the exercise of its assignments and promote analysis and evaluation joint of the previdential and assistive services provided to the users;

XII-promote exchange with public and private entities, in the process of programs and projects, aiming at the dissemination of institutional information;

XIII-promoting exchange with the Office of Management Office of the Ministry of Planning, Budget and Management, through the Subsecretariat of Planning, Budget and Administration of the Ministry of Social Welfare, seeking the excellence of the services provided, in line with the guidelines of the programs and projects of the Federal Government; and

XIV-establish guidelines and coordinate the actions of the Previdentiary Education Program-PEP.

Section IV

From the Common Competencies of Direct and Immediate Assistance Bodies to the

President, Sectional and Singular Specifics

Art. 15. To the bodies of direct and immediate assistance to the President, the sectional bodies and the specific individuals, observed their respective areas of acting, compete:

I-submit to the proposed President of:

a) guidelines for the drafting of the INSS Annual Action Plan and, as of its approval, its plans and programs;

b) legal instruments aiming at the improvement of legal acting, management budgeting, financial, accounting and real estate assets, from initial recognition, maintenance, resource and review of rights to the receipt of previdential and assistive benefits and consignments in benefits; and

c) plans, programs, and targets of technological innovation in processes and systems used in their activities, in articulation with the Coordination-General of Information Technology;

II-subsidize the Directorate of Attenure in the proposition of standards, systems and methods of evaluation and monitoring of the quality and productivity of its activities and services, as well in the actions aimed at institutional administrative modernization, without prejudice to the assignments of the remaining organs involved;

III-keep informed the President about:

a) the results of the processes of the technical-administrative litigation, especially those arising from the administration of real estate;

b) preventive audits and correctives and their results;

c) the internal management actions; and

d) the initial recognition actions, maintenance, resource, and revision of rights to receive benefits previdentials and assistecial, consignment in benefits as well as in relation to the previdential compensation;

IV-provide to the Coordinator-General Planning and Strategic Management information required for the elaboration and monitoring of the INSS planning process;

V-provide the Directorate of Call for the information necessary to follow up results and service network assessment;

VI-systematization and diffusion guidelines for the generation of institutional information;

VII-coordinate and supervise the Regional Procuratorates and Sectional, Regional Audits, Regional Corregedories, as well as the initial recognition, maintenance, resource and review of rights to the receipt of pension and assistive benefits, previdential compensation and internal control of benefits;

VIII-answering the requests for information from external control bodies and subsidize the drafting of the annual accountability report, observing the statutory deadlines;

IX-forwarding to the Directorate of Budget, Finance and Logistics processes for taking special accounts;

X-support the realization of the internal selection process for the choice of the occupants of the posts of Manager-Executive;

XI-manage, in articulation with the Ouvidoria-General of Welfare Social, the resolubility of demands regarding your area of acting, with the aim of improving the quality of the provision of the services of the previdentiary services; and

XII-making fulfilling the deliberations of the President.

Section V

Of The Organs and Decentralized Units

Art. 16. To Regional Geries, subordinated to the President, compete:

I-supervise, coordinate and articulate the management of the Managers-Executives under their jurisdiction;

II-submit to the President the Regional Management Action Plan and its Managers-Judicial Officers, in accordance with the guidelines emanating from the Multiannual Plan of the Federal Government and Strategic Planning of the INSS, in articulation with the Coordinator-General of Strategic Planning and Management;

III-program and perform the following activities common required for the operation of INSS organs and units under its jurisdiction:

a) coordination, orientation, consolidation, monitoring and evaluation of projects and activities, within the framework of Regional Managment;

b) coordination, monitoring, evaluation and consolidation of the process of implementing the budget proposal, in line with the Action Plan, in the framework of Regional Management;

c) coordination of the budget, financial and accounting implementation activities, within the framework of the Regional Management;

d) taking special account taking place within the framework of the Management Regional, in accordance with the guidelines of the Directorate of Budget, Finance and Logistics;

e) planning and monitoring of licitatory procedures and hiring of goods and services; and

f) performance of the activities of general and budget services, finance and accounting, in accordance with the guidelines of the Directorate of Budget, Finance and Logistics;

IV-support the personnel development actions, through the elaboration, coordination and execution of the programming of empowerment and development of servers within the framework of Regional Managment and subordinate units, depending on the guidelines of the Human Resources Directorate;

V-approve the annual capacity-building schedule of the Managers-Executives under their jurisdiction;

VI-authorize the execution of capacity-building projects of the Generations-Executives under their jurisdiction;

VII-perform human resource administration activities, within the framework of Regional Managment, depending on deliberation of the Directorate of Human Resources;

VIII-implement the guidelines and actions defined by the Fulfillment Board and the Directorate of Benefits;

IX-support and perform, by means of the Social Communication Advisory, the media and political and social media representation activities of the INSS, under the supervision of the unit responsible for media communication at the Ministry of Social Welfare;

X-manage, in articulation with the Ouvidoria-General of Social Welfare the resolubility of the demands regarding its area of comprehensiveness, with the aim of improving the quality of the provision of the previdential services; and

XI-answering the requests for information from the control bodies and subsidizing the Presidency in the drafting of the annual accountability report, with information consolidated of its Generations-Jurisdictional Executives.

Art. 17. To the Managers-Executives, subordinated to their respective Regional Managers, compete:

I- overseeing the Social Security Agencies under their jurisdiction in the activities of:

a) initial recognition, maintenance, resource and review of rights to the receipt of previdential and assisteous benefits;

b) medical expertise and occupational rehabilitation, inclusive of those effected by indirect performers; and

c) operationalization of the pension compensation between the General Social Welfare Regime and other regimes of foresight;

II-ensuring social control, in particular by means of the maintenance of the Social Security Councils;

III-cater with prestness the demands coming from the Ouvidorian-General Social Security;

IV-elaborate, execute and follow up the Annual Plan of Action, within the framework of its competence;

V-support the management of the reception, distribution and execution of the litigation, depending on the deliberation of the President;

VI-support and follow up, in the administrative plan, the activities of judicial or extrajudicial representation, consultancy and legal advising;

VII-support and follow up, in the administrative plan, the correctional activities and audits installed in its area of comprehensiveness;

VIII-interpose resources and offer counter-reasons to the Board of Appeal Board of Appeal and Judgment Boards of the Resource Council of Social Security-CRPS, in relation to the subjects of its competence;

IX-run the activities of general and budget services, finance and accounting required for the functioning of courts and jurisdictional units, with the annuence of Regional Management and in accordance with the guidelines of the Budget Directorate, Finance and Logistics;

X-perform the human resources administration activities, in your jurisdiction, depending on the deliberation of the Human Resources Directorate;

XI-draw up project of empowerment for your servers, forwarding it to Regional Manager;

XII-run the empowerment actions authorized by the Regional Managers;

XIII-support and execute the media and political and social media representation activities of the INSS, noted the provisions of the art. 16;

XIV-promote, in articulation with the Directorate of Call, the actions of the Program of Previdential Education-PEP, keeping informed the Regional Management; and

XV-elaboration information from its area of comprehensiveness to subsidize the Prestation of INSS Annual Accounts, forwarding them to Regional Management.

§ First Generations-Executives compete, still, supervise, support and control the units of care to them linked, through the celebration of convemians and partnerships constituted with companies, municipal prefectures, and other public and community actors.

§ 2nd In the capitals of units of the Federation where Regional Management is installed, it will be up to this the implementation of the media activities, by fit to the Management-Executive to task of supporting it.

Art. 18. The Social Welfare Agencies compete:

I-proceed to the initial recognition, maintenance, resource and review of rights to the benefits administered by the INSS, medical expertise, habilitation and professional rehabilitation, social service, as well as the operationalization of the previdential compensation and the issuance of time certificates of contribution;

II-propose formal consultation to the technical areas of the Executive Management-Executive to which if binds;

III-perform the orientation and information activities, according to the guidelines laid down in the specific acts that define the subject;

IV-meet the demands from the Ouvidoria-General of Social Security;

V-render the requisite information by the Prosecutor's Office to subsidize the defense of the INSS in judgment and comply, under guidance from the Prosecutor's Office, the court rulings; and

VI-carry out the activities of orientation, information and awareness of society, including those arising from local, regional or national partnerships, according to the guidelines established in the Previdential Education Program-PEP, in articulation with the Management-Executive Management.

Art. 19. To the Social Security Agencies of Benefits by Incapacity, subordinated technically and administratively to the Managers-Executives, compete:

I-run the initial recognition services, resource and review of rights to the receipt of pension benefits by disability; and

II-propose formal consultation to the Divisions or Services of Benefits of the Generation-Executive to which it links.

Art. 20. The Agencies of Social Security of Judicial Demands compete:

I- perform court rule-making services for initial recognition, re-establishment, conversion and revision of rights to the receipt of pension benefits;

II-propose formal consultation to the Divisions or Services of Benefits and the Attorney's Office of the Management-Executive to which if binds; and

III-providing information and clarifications to the Specialized Federal Prosecutor's Office and to the Judicial Power.

Art. 21. To Regional Audits, subordinated directly to the Auditoria-General, competes:

I- follow up and perform preventive and corrective audits and recommend preventive and corrective actions in the decentralized bodies and units, as per guidelines set out by the Auditoria-General, through its Coordinations-Generals; and

II-monitor the ascertaining and solution, in charge of the execution lines, of denunciations forwarded by the Ouvidoria-General of Social Security.

Art. 22. To Regional Corregedories, subordinated directly to the Corregedoria-General, competes:

I- keep track of the performance of the servers and leaders in the decentralized bodies and units, scrutinizing and evaluating their functional conduct;

II-define on the relevance of the pronunciation of denunciations concerning the acting of the INSS leaders and servers, without prejudice to their competences;

III-promote the establishment of syndications and disciplinary administrative processes;

IV-requisite representations, information, processes, and documents required for the performance of your activities; and

V-receive and ascertaining the complaints forwarded by the Ouvidoria-General of Social Security and communicate the solution.

CHAPTER V

DAS ATTRIBUTIONS OF LEADERS

Section I

Do President

Art. 23. To the President it is incumbent:

I-exercise the upper direction and the hierarchical command in the framework of the INSS;

II-represent the INSS;

III-exercise the disciplinary power under the legislation;

IV-referred to the Ministry of Social Welfare proposals for legal instruments, documents and reports that should be submitted to the National Board of Social Welfare-CNPS;

V-elaborate and to release semiannual reports on the activities of the INSS, referring them to the CNPS and the Minister of State for Social Security, without prejudice to the forwarding of other reports and information when by this requested;

VI-forward to the Minister of State for Social Welfare list in order to appoint Managers-Executives, chosen in the terms of § 1st Art. 4o;

VII-referred to the Minister of State for Social Welfare the proposals for:

a) creation, extinction, alteration of the location and installation of new Regional Generations, Management-Executive Officers, Regional Audits, Regional Corregedories, Regional Procuratorates and Sectional Goods;

b) alteration of the internal regiment of the INSS; and

c) plans, programs, and targets of technological innovation in processes and systems used by the INSS;

VIII-forwarded to the Federal Attorney General and to the Advocate General of the Union solicitation of brokerage or ascertaining of functional lack of which treats the inciso IX of the art. 9o;

IX-send the provision of accounts to the Ministry of Social Security for the purposes of forwarding to the Court of Union Accounts;

X-celebrate and rescind contracts, congeniums, agreements and adjustments, as well as ordering expenses; and

XI-decide on:

a) Annual Plan of Action, the annual budget proposal and its changes;

b) divestments and acquisition of immovable property, in conjunction with the Director of Budget, Finance and Logistics;

c) hiring external audits to analyze and issue opinion on demonstratives economic-financial and accounting, as well as on payment of benefits, submitting the results obtained to the assessment of the Minister of State for Social Welfare and the CNPS, pursuant to the legislation in force;

d) localization, alteration and installation of the Social Security Agencies, fixed and mobile; and

f) the creation of Ethics Commissions in the Regional Generations and the Managers-Executives.

Section II

From the rest Leaders

Art. 24. To Directors, the Chief Prosecutor, the Chief of Staff, the Project Managers, the Auditor-General, the Chief Deputy, the Chief Underattorney, the Coordinators-General, Regional Managers, the Managers-Executives, the Auditors-Regional, the Regional Cowers, the Regional Prosecutors, Sectional Attorneys and the remaining leaders is to plan, direct, coordinate, guide, monitor and evaluate the execution of the activities affected to the respective units and to exercise others assignments that are committed to them, in their areas of acting, by the President.

CHAPTER VI

OF THE GENERAL AND TRANSITIONAL PROVISIONS

Art. 25. The standards of organization and operation of the organs and integral units of the INSS Regimental Structure will be established in the internal regiment.

Art. 26. The INSS, on the grounds of the provisions of the Act no 11,098, of January 13, 2005, remains entrusted with:

I-carry out the personnel and maintenance expenses concerning the activities transferred to the Ministry of Social Security, including those concerning health plans of their servers, and the Federal Attorney General, until the necessary budget adjustments are implemented so that the Ministry of Social Welfare and the Federal Attorney General can shoulder those expenses; and

II-give technical, financial and administrative support to the Ministry of Social Welfare and the Federal Attorney General until implantation of its definitive structures.

Art. 27. Up to the full installation of the Regional Generations, the activities of which treats the inciso III of the art. 16 will be executed by the Managers-Executives, under the coordination of the respective Regional Managers.

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