DECREE NO. 6,246, OF October 24, 2007.

Creates the Brazilian Company of Communication-EBC, approves its Statute and gives other providences.

The PRESIDENT OF THE REPUBLIC, in the use of the attribution that confers it on art. 84, incisus IV, of the Constitution, and with a view to the provisions of the Provisional Measure no 398, of October 10, 2007,

DECRETA:

Art. It's created the Company Brasil de Communication-EBC, federal public company, linked to the Secretariat of Social Communication of the Presidency of the Republic.

Art. 2nd The initial constitution of the social capital of EBC will give us in the terms of the art constant authorization. 5th, combined with the § 1st of the art. 9th of the Provisional Measure no 398 of October 10, 2007, with the transfer, by the Union, of R$ 20,000,000.00 (twenty million reais) of the budgetary allocations intended for the operation support of the public broadcasting services.

Art. 3rd The role of the Union representative of which it treats art. 10 of the Provisional Measure no 398, of 2007, will be deemed to be of relevant public interest, unpaid.

Art. 4th Stay approved the Social Status of EBC, pursuant to the Attachment of this Decree.

Art. 5th This Decree goes into effect on the date of its publication.

Brasilia, October 24, 2007; 186th of the Independence and 119th of the Republic.

LUIZ INÁCIO LULA DA SILVA

Guido Mantega

Paulo Bernardo Silva

Franklin Martins

This text does not replace the one published in the DOU of 10/25/2007

ANNEX

CHAPTER I

OF THE DENOMINATION, NATURE, DURATION AND THIRST

Art. 1st COMPANY BRASIL DE COMMUNICATION-EBC is a public company, organized in the form of closed capital anonymous society, linked to the Secretariat of Social Communication of the Presidency of the Republic.

§ 1st The term of the society's duration is undetermined.

§ 2nd EBC has headquarters and venue in the city of Rio de Janeiro, with acting in every territory national, and central office in the city of Brasilia, and may install offices, dependencies and production and broadcasting centers in any location.

CHAPTER II

DA PURPOSE, PRINCIPLES, OBJECTIVES AND COMPETENCIES

Art. 2nd EBC has for purpose the provision of public broadcasting services and related services, with observation of the following principles:

I-complementarity between the private, public and state-owned systems;

II-promotion of access to information through plurality of sources of production and distribution of the content;

III-production and programming with educational, artistic, cultural, scientific, and informative purposes;

IV-promotion of national culture, stimulus to regional production, and independent production;

V-autonomy in relation to the Federal Government to define production, programming, and distribution of content in the public broadcasting system; and

VI-participation of civil society in the control of the application of the principles of the public broadcasting system, respecting the plurality of Brazilian society.

Art. 3rd Are EBC's goals:

I-offer mechanisms for public debate about themes of national and international relevance;

II-develop the critical consciousness of the citizen, upon educational, artistic, cultural, informative, scientific, and promoter citizenship programming;

III-fostering the construction of citizenship, the consolidation of democracy and participation in society, guaranteeing the right to citizen information;

IV-cooperate with the citizen's educational and training processes;

V-supporting processes of social inclusion and socialization of knowledge production through the offering of spaces for display of contents produced by the various social and regional groups;

VI -pursue excellence in content and languages and develop creative and innovative formats, constituting centre for innovation and talent training;

VII-directing its production and programming by the educational, artistic, cultural, informative, scientific, and promoters' purposes of citizenship, without with this withdrawing its competitive character in the pursuit of the interest of the greatest number of listeners or viewers; and

VIII-promote partnerships and foster national audio-visual production, contributing to the expansion of its production and diffusion.

Art. 4th For realization of its purpose, it competes with EBC:

I-deploy and operate the broadcasters and explore the services of sound public broadcasting and sounds and images of the Federal Government;

II-implant and operate its own networks of repetition and relay broadcasting, exploring the respective services;

III-establish cooperation and collaboration with public or private entities exploring the service of broadcasting public, upon convents or other adjustments, with views to the formation of National Network of Public Communication;

IV-producing and spreading informative, educational, artistic, cultural, scientific, citizenship, and recreation programming;

V-promote and stimulate the training and training of specialized personnel, necessary to the activities of broadcasting, communication and related services;

VI-providing services in the field of broadcasting, communication and related services, including for the transmission of acts and subjects of the Federal Government;

VII-distribute the legal publicity of the organs and entities of the federal administration, to the exception of that vehiculated by the official bodies of the Union; and

VIII-exercise other related activities, which are assigned to it by the Presidency's Office of Social Communication of the Republic or by its Curatorial Council.

Single paragraph. For the purposes of the provisions of the inciso VII of the caput, it is understood to be lawful advertising the publication of notices, balance sheets, reports and others to which the organs and entities of the federal administration are obliged by law or regulation.

CHAPTER III

DO CAPITAL AND EQUITIES

Art. 5th The social capital of EBC is R$ 200,000,000.00 (two hundred million reais), divided into two hundred thousand nominative ordinary shares and no nominal value.

§ 1st Each ordinary action confers to its right holder to vote in the deliberations of the general assembly.

§ 2nd The price, the conditions of issuance, underwriting and integralization of shares will be established by the assembly general.

§ 3rd Shareholders will have a right of preference in subscribing to new shares, when of their issuance and placement, in the proportion of the amount of shares they possess.

Art. 6th The social capital could be increased by capitalizing on resources that shareholders would target to that end, as well as by incorporating goods and rights and in the remaining cases provided for in the legislation, upon prior approval of the general assembly.

§ 1st The increases in social capital will be authorized by the assembly general, by proposal of the EBC trustees, heard the Tax Council.

§ 2nd In the hypothesis of the § 1st, the general assembly will also set the conditions for underwriting and integralization of social capital, as well as will deliberate on the amount of shares to be issued.

§ 3rd About the resources transferred by the Union, for the purposes of raising capital of the EBC, will focus financial burdens in the form of the current legislation, since the day of the transfer up to the date of the capitalization.

Art. 7th will be able to be shareholders of the EBC the entities of the indirect federal administration, the states, the Federal District and the Municipalities, as well their entities from the indirect administration.

Paragraph single. The participation of which it treats the caput could be carried out upon transfer, to the EBC's estate, of goods representative of the settling stations of broadcasting stations of their property or other goods necessary and useful to their functioning.

CHAPTER IV

OF THE FINANCIAL RESOURCES

Art. 8th EBC resources will consist of the revenue coming from:

I-of appropriations budget;

II-of the exploitation of the public broadcasting services;

III-of provision of services to public or private ones, of the distribution of content, models of programming, licensing of brands and products and other activities inherent in communication;

IV-of donations, legacies, grants and other resources that are intended for it by physical or legal persons of public or private law;

V-of institutional publicity of entities of public law and private law, in title of cultural support, admitting the sponsorship of programs, events and projects;

VI-of advertising institutional of entities of public and private law, aimed at programs, events and projects of public utility, of promoting citizenship and social or environmental responsibility;

VII-of the distribution of legal advertising of the organs and entities of the federal public administration, according to the provisions in the single paragraph of the art. 4o;

VIII-of resources obtained in the systems instituted by the Laws in the 8,313, from 28 of December 1991, 8,685, of July 20, 1993, and 11,437, of December 28, 2006;

IX- of resources coming from agreements and arrangements that carry out with national and international entities, public or private;

X-of income from financial applications that carry out; and

XI-from renown coming from other sources.

CHAPTER V

DA GENERAL ASSEMBLY

Art. 9th The general assembly of shareholders shall be convened by deliberation of the Board of Directors or, in the hypotheses admitted into law, by the Director-President, by the Fiscal Council, by group of shareholders or by shareholder isolatedly.

§ First the general assembly will meet, ordinarily, once a year, within the four first months after the end of the social exercise and, extraordinarily, whenever it is made necessary, by convening the Board of Directors.

§ 2nd The proceedings of the general assembly will be directed by the Chairman of the Board of Directors of EBC, by his substitute, or, in the absence or hindrance of both, by one of the shareholders or administrator of the company present, chosen by the shareholders.

§ 3rd The general assembly will only be able to deliberate on the subjects of the constant agenda of the respective convocation edict, which shall contain only specific themes, and its deliberations shall be taken by a majority of votes.

Art. 10. In addition to the powers defined in law, it competes especially for the general assembly:

I-reform the Statute for the approval of the President of the Republic;

II-take annually the accounts of the administrators and deliberation on the financial statements by them presented;

III- to deliberate on the targeting of the outcome of the exercise, on the distribution of dividends and the payment of interest on the equity capital;

IV-deliberation on the valuation of the goods with which the shareholder is running for social capital;

V-deliberating on fission, merger or incorporation of EBC, its dissolution and liquidation, as well as electing and impeding the liquidators and adjudicate them the accounts;

VI-deliberating on the transformation of EBC;

VII-authorize the exchange of shares or other issuance securities of EBC;

VIII-fixing the overall remuneration of the members of the Board of Directors, of the Executive Directorate and of the Fiscal Council; and

IX-deliberate on other matters that are proposed to it.

CHAPTER VI

OF THE EBC ADMINISTRATION AND ORGANIZATION

Art. 11. Are bodies of administration:

I-the Board of Directors; and

II-the Executive Direction.

Single paragraph. The internal organizational structure of the EBC and the functions of the technical areas that make it up will be defined in internal regiment, drawn up by the Executive Board and approved by the Board of Directors.

Art. 12. The governing bodies will be integrated by Brazilians endowed with notorious knowledge, including on the best practices of corporate governance, experience, moral idoneity, reputation ilibada, and technical ability compatible with the job, all residents in the Country.

Single paragraph. The members of the Executive Board are expected to have minimum three-year professional experience in their respective areas of acting.

Art. 13. They may not participate in the governing bodies, in addition to those prevented by law:

I-those who detain control or relevant participation in the social capital of legal person defaulted to the company or has caused him injury not yet ressarated, extending this impediment to those who have occupied office of administration in person legal in that situation, in the social exercise immediately prior to the date of the election or appointment;

II-those who housed being convicted of ffeeding crime, of tax evasion, of prevarication, of active or passive corruption, of concussion, of embezzle, against the economy popular, against public faith, against property or that housees have been sentenced to criminal punishment that vede, albeit temporarily, access to public office;

III-those declared inabilitable for management positions in companies subject to authorization, control and supervision of bodies and entities of direct public administration and indirect;

IV-the declared bankrupt or insolvent;

V-those who have held control or participated in the administration of concordatary legal person, bankrupt or insolvent, in the period of five years prior to the date of the election or appointment, save in the condition of a liquidator, commissioner or judicial administrator;

VI-partner, ascending, descending or related collateral or afim, up to the third degree, from member of the Board of Directors or the Executive Board;

VII-those who occupy positions in societies that may be considered competitors in the market, in particular in advisory, administration or tax advice, save dispensation from the general assembly; and

VIII-those who have conflicting interest with the society, save dispensation from the general assembly.

§ First to the members of the governing bodies is vetted to intervene in operation in which, directly or indirectly, they are interested companies from which they hold control or participation in excess of five percent of social capital.

§ 2nd The impediment referred to in § 1st applies, still, when it comes to the company in which occupy or have occupied, in period immediately prior to the investiture at EBC, managerial post.

CHAPTER VII

DO BOARD OF DIRECTORS

Art. 14. The Board of Directors shall be composed:

I-by a member appointed by the Minister of State Head of the Secretariat of Social Communication of the Presidency of the Republic, who will exercise the presidency of the collegiate;

II-by the Director-President;

III-by a member appointed by the Minister of State for Planning, Budget and Management;

IV-by a member indicated by the Minister of State for Communications; and

V-by a member indicated by the minority shareholders, and, not by these, a member appointed by the Chief Minister of the Chief Minister of the Secretariat of Social Communication of the Presidency of the Republic.

§ First members of the Board of Directors will be appointed by the President of the republic among Brazilians of notorious knowledge and experience, moral idoneity and ilibated reputation.

§ 2nd The term of management of the members of the Board of Directors, except for the one referred to in the inciso II of the caput, will be three years, permitted reconducts.

§ 3rd The investiture of the members of the Board of Directors will give itself upon signature of the term of possession in a book of its own.

§ 4th The term of management of the Board of Directors shall be counted from the date of publication of the act of appointment and extends to the investiture of the new administrators.

§ 5th In the redriving hypothesis, the term of the new term will count from the date of the signing of the term of possession.

§ 6th In case of vacancy in the course of the mandate, it will be appointed new advisor, in the terms of the caput of this article, which will complete the term of the substituted.

§ 7th The Board of Directors will convene, ordinarily, each month and, extraordinarily, whenever convened by its President or by two thirds of its members.

§ 8th The decisions of the Board of Directors will be taken by a simple majority, by having the President the quality vote, in the event of a tie.

§ 9th The Counsellor who, for any reason, has particular or conflicting interest with that of the EBC in particular deliberation will not participate in the discussion and voting of that item.

§ 10. In the event of vacancy, lack or temporary impossibility of its President, the Board of Directors will be presided over interinally by the advisor chosen by the remnants.

§ 11. In addition to the remaining hypotheses provided for in law, it shall be deemed to be vacant as a member of the Board of Directors who, without cause justified, leave to attend more than two consecutive or three alternating meetings, in the range of three hundred and sixty-five days.

§ 12. The remuneration of the members of the Board of Directors, in addition to the reimbursement, mandatory, of the locomotion and stay expenses required for the performance of the function, shall be fixed by the general assembly and shall not exceed, in any hypothesis, at ten per cent of the average monthly remuneration of directors.

§ 13. The deliberations will be lavished in minutes, which will be drawn up with clarity, and recorded all the decisions taken, becoming the object of formal approval.

Art. 15. The Board of Directors is the EBC's leading and directing body, competing with it:

I-fix the general orientation of the EBC business, respected the competences of the Curator Council;

II-convocation, in the cases provided for in law and in this Statute, the general assembly, featuring proposals for its deliberation;

III-elect and impeach the members of the Executive Board, observed the provisions of the art. 16 of this Statute;

IV-opinione and forward to the general assembly:

a) the report of the administration and the accounts of the Executive Directorate;

b) the profit or earnings target of the company;

c) the distribution of dividends and the payment of interest on the equity capital; and

d) the raising of capital, the price and conditions of issuance, subscribing and integralization of shares;

V-approve the internal regiment of the EBC, which will detail the assignments and competencies of the directors, as well as its organizational structure and its functioning, observed the provisions of this Statute;

VI-scrutinise the management of directors, examine the books and roles of EBC, request information on bidding editions, contracts concluded, or in avenues of celebration, contractual additives and any other acts practiced by the leaders, as well as on the arrangements adopted by the administration to regularise representations of the Court of Auditors of the Union and of the Union Controller-General of the Union;

VII-authorize the disposal of assets of the permanent asset, when of more than five percent of the net worth, the constitution of real burden and the provision of assurance by EBC;

VIII- authorize and homologate the hiring of independent auditors, as well as their destitution;

IX-approve the strategic plan, as well as the respective multiannual plans and annual expenditures and investments programs;

X-approve standards for bidding and for contracting acquisition of works and services;

XI-define the specific standards for hiring permanent staff of the EBC by public tender of evidence or evidence and securities;

XII-determining the value above which the acts, contracts or operations, although of competence of the Executive Board, are to be submitted to the Board of Directors;

XIII-forwarding to the general assembly the proposals for amendments of the EBC Statute;

XIV-define the tasks of the internal audit unit, and regulate its functioning, by even appointing and dismissing its proprietor;

XV-establish the guidelines for drafting the Annual Plan of Internal Audit Activities-PAINT for the following exercise, up to the last working day of the month of December each year, and approve this Plan;

XVI-authorize the opening, transfer or closure of offices, dependencies, and production and broadcasting centers of EBC;

XVII-approve the plan of posts, career and salaries and the staff frame of EBC;

XVIII-authorize the hiring of loans, insurance, works, services, projects, researches, autonomous professionals and the provision of cautions, guarantors and fiances in the interest of EBC;

XIX-accompany the economic and financial performance of the society;

XX-forward to the Chief Minister of State of the Secretariat of Social Communication the proposal to create posts and the setting of salaries, benefits and perks;

XXI-designate and impeach the holder of the Ouvidoria; and

XXII-decide the missing cases of this Statute.

CHAPTER VIII

DA EXECUTIVE BOARD

Art. 16. The Executive Board shall be constituted:

I-of a Director-Chairman, appointed by the President of the Republic;

II-of a Director-General, appointed by the President of the Republic;

III-from a Director of Journalism;

IV-from a Administrative Director-Financiiro;

V-from a Director of Programming and Content;

VI-from a Director of Relationship;

VII-from a Director of Services; and

VIII-from a Director of Support.

§ First the directors referred to in the incisos III to VIII will be elected and impeached by the Board of Directors.

§ 2nd It is three years the managerial term of the Executive Directorate, except the Director-President who will have tenure of four years, allowed for redriving.

§ 3rd The Director-President will be replaced by the Director-General of EBC in its departments or possible impediments and interinarily in the case of resignation or outright impediment.

§ 4th In addition to the common hypotheses of vacancy, it will be considered vacant the post of Director-President when the removal of the holder occurs for more than thirty days, without having there has been authorization from the Board of Directors.

§ 5th It is assured to the members of the Board Executive the enjoyable annual holiday enjoyment, being vetoed the payment at double the remuneration for annual leave not enjoyed in the course of the concessional period.

§ 6th The members of the Executive Board are responsible for the acts practiced in disregard of the law, with the Status of EBC and with the institutional guidelines emanating from the Board of Directors.

§ 7th The members of the Executive Board will be impeached in the legal hypotheses or if will receive two distrust votes from the Curatorial Council, in the twelve-month period, issued with minimum thirty-day interstice between both.

§ 8th The directors, to the exception of the Director-President and the Director-General, will be replaced, in their temporary absences or in their departments or possible impediments, by eBC employee by them chosen and assigned upon an act of the Director-General.

Art. 17. Compete with the Director-President:

I-drive, coordinate and control the activities of the EBC;

II-conduct the institutional strategic planning of EBC;

III-exercise the institutional representation before the Government and society in a general way;

IV-approve policies, plans, and guidelines proposed by the Directors with the Council of Administration and the Curatorial Council in what is their respective assignments;

V- practise the remaining acts of management, not understood in the area of competence of the general assembly, of the Board of Directors, of the Curatorial Council and the Fiscal Council;

VI-represent, actively and passively, the EBC, in judgment or out of it, and may, for so much, delegate powers and, in set with the Director-General, constitute prosecutors, specifying in the instrument the acts or operations they will be able to practise and the duration of the warrant;

VII-establish together with the Board of Directors and the Curatorial Board the priorities of the actions in what is their respective assignments;

VIII-propose to the Directors programs of work and measures necessary to defend the interests of EBC;

IX-comply and enforce the deliberations emanating from the general assembly, of the Council of Administration, the Curatorial Council and the Executive Board;

X-requisite and designate servers for the exercise of office in commission or trust function, as well as restitution to the organ of origin, in the form of the law;

XI-authorize the assignment of employees, as well as the hiring, by-term, of specialized technical personnel, observed the relevant legislation;

XII-keep the Curator Council, Board of Directors and Tax Council informed about the activities of EBC;

XIII-determine the realization of technical inspections, auditions, syndications or enquiries;

XIV-convene, install and chair the meetings of the Board Executive;

XV-submit to the Board of Directors the budget proposals of EBC;

XVI-submit to the Board of Directors proposed general standards of administration of personnel, including those relating to frame fixation;

XVII-submit to the Board of Proposed administration of organizational structure of the EBC and its internal regiment, as well as of setting up offices, dependencies or production and broadcasting centers;

XVIII-submit to the proposed Board of Directors amendment of the EBC Statute;

XIX-submit to the Board of Directors the proposed changes of the social capital of EBC;

XX-forward to the Boards of Directors and Fiscal the results of the finder exercise;

XXI-elaborated, in conjunction with the Director-General, and refer to the Curatorial Council the annual plan of work and the annual report of its implementation;

XXII-forwarding annually to the Council Curator the educational, artistic, cultural, and informative guidelines integral to EBC's communication policy;

XXIII-forward to the Secretariat of Social Communication of the Presidency of the Republic the proposal of institution of setorial technical chambers with views to promote articulation with government entities and economic agents acting in the area of communication and related services;

XXIV-propose to the Board of Directors, in conjunction with the Director-General, the nominations and removal of the remaining directors;

XXV-convene the general assembly in the cases provided for in law; and

XXVI-delegating, in whole or in part, competencies and attributions to the EBC Director-General.

Art. 18. Compete for the Director-General:

I-replace the Director-President in his absences and impediments;

II-admit, designate, promote, transfer and dispense employees, according to with the EBC standards;

III-order expenses and, together with Director Administration-Finance, sign payment orders;

IV-supervise the directors of the operational areas in the execution of their works;

V-overseeing the activities of advice and support and support to the EBC Executive Directorate and to its advisory areas;

VI-supervising the activities of planning, development and support of the achievement of the social object;

VII-delegate, in whole or in part, assignments and competencies to the remaining directors without specific designation, from agreement with the conveniences of the management;

VIII-coordinate the drafting of regulations and internal standards to be submitted to the approval of the Board of Directors;

IX-coordinate the elaboration, implementation of the budget and prepare the follow-up reports;

X-propose to the Director-President the distribution of competences and assignments among the members of the remaining directorships, in addition to those provided for in this Statute;

XI-approve and sign by EBC, together with another director, contracts, convents, adjustments and agreements; and

XII-coordinate the Registry of the Executive Directorate.

Paragraph single. The Director General will be replaced, in his or her departments or any possible impediments, by one of the directors of the operational areas of EBC, by he designated.

Art. 19. Compete to the Director of Journalism:

I-respond by the journalistic content that is veered by EBC;

II-supervise, edit and vehicular news reports and programs journalistic, with correctness and quality, in national and international scope;

III-driving, plan and organize the execution of the journalistic catchment activities and the relevant acts and facts of the everyday and of the interest of society as a whole;

IV-distribute news of national and international events to all broadcasters of television, radio and other media, public or private;

V-drive, approve, and follow the editorial content of journalistic services to the outside;

VI-approve and keep track of journalistic content conveyed in EBC that is not of production own;

VII-directing and planning the journalistic content of the EBC portal, on the internet and other media;

VIII-driving, planning, implementing, and organizing the execution of projects journalism specials developed by EBC; and

IX-plan, drive, manage and execute the whole format of the presented journalistic programs (audio, aesthetics, scenery, lighting, language, presenters), in conjunction with the Director of Programming and Content.

Art. 20. Compete for the Chief Administrative Officer:

I-support the Director-General in Management organizational and in the general administration of EBC, as well as the Director-President in his assignments;

II-directing, planning and organizing the execution of EBC's human resource management, financial, accounting and tax activities;

III-administer the EBC heritage, inventoriing and caretaking by the maintenance of the company's assets;

IV-accompany the budget execution of EBC;

V-prepare reporting documentation from EBC to external bodies and to the Fiscal Council;

VI-administrate the operational activities concerning the human resources of EBC;

VII-administer the activities regarding the administration of procurement and supplies, security, administration and control of storeroom and general internal services;

VIII-manifest on all relevant documentation of the acquisition, burdening and disposal of goods and rights or which constitutes the EBC in pecuniary obligation of any kind, observing and making observing the applicable internal standards and limits and the laws in vigour;

IX-draw up proposed standards for bidding and contracting of purchase of works and services;

X-draw up proposal of posts, career and salaries and the staff frame of the EBC; and

XI-draw up the financial statements of EBC, forwarding them to the Director-President and the Director-General.

Art. 21. Compete with the Director of Programming and Content:

I-ensure the production and programming of the EBC, respecting the educational, artistic, cultural, informative, scientific, technological, and promoters of citizenship purposes, seeking to simultaneously align the company's competitiveness interests;

II-guarantee the quality of the EBC programming and content;

III-supervise the productions of EBC;

IV-supervise, produce and distribute the calls in the programming grid, as well as interprogramming;

V-administer the technical and operational features to ensure the regularity of time and of programming, respecting the sequence of programming;

VI-contemplating diversity socio-cultural and regional Country to select and create programs and content that meet the principles and objectives of EBC;

VII-continuously search for the innovation of the content;

VIII-promote the integration of the programming and content areas at all hierarchical levels;

IX-planning, directing, managing and executing the entire format of the presented programs (audio, aesthetics, scenario, lighting, language, presenters), on all media operated by EBC;

X-work in conjunction with the remaining directors, according to the internal regiment, in the definition of the programming and in the study of new program formats;

XI-planning, directing, managing and executing products produced by EBC to be conveyed in their own media or in others of their interest; and

XII-plan and allocate the production teams.

Art. 22. Compete with the Director of Relationship:

I-support the Director-President in the development of the EBC's institutional relationship with the public power, in the federal, state and municipal ambits, aiming at the establishment of the institutional conditions for the fulfillment of its objectives;

II-supporting the Director-Chair in the development of the EBC institutional relationship with the society;

III-support the Director-President in the EBC's relationship with the forums and associations representative of the public and private broadcasting sector, independent production, social communication and other areas correlates to their mission;

IV-supporting the Director-General in the development of the institutional relationship of EBC in the context of international relations;

V-accompany the execution of EBC's congeniums, projects and partnerships with public and private entities, targeting the deployment of the National Public Communication Network;

VI-promoting the caption of resources referred to in art. 8th, in conjunction with the related directorships; and

VII-effectors the distribution and promote the licensing of content generated by the schedules carried out by EBC.

Art. 23. It is incumbent upon the Director of Services:

I-to elaborate, organize and manage the service policy of the EBC, in conjunction with the related directorships;

II-plan, deploy, organize and drive the execution of special communication projects for third parties;

III-driving the provision of planning, production, editing, and vehicular content services in all areas of the media for public or private persons;

IV-directing the provision of planning, assembly and operation services of broadcasters, radio, multimedia sites on the internet, other media and related services;

V-plan, organize, and drive the execution of the production and distribution activities of legal advertising;

VI-assemble, plan, organize and drive personnel, equipment and facilities to ensure agility and autonomy in the execution of the services;

VII-driving the provision of staff training and capacity-building services in the areas of communication, broadcasting and related services;

VIII-planning, organizing, and directing services of documentation, archiving and media analysis; and

IX-elaborating projects for taking advantage of EBC opportunity areas.

Art. 24. Compete with the Director of Support:

I-install, operate, and maintain the systems and networks of generation and analogue transmission and digital transmission used by EBC;

II-coordinate, control and perform the internal and external operation activities of EBC's radio and television broadcasters;

III-directing the execution of the activities of formation, transmission and distribution of the obligatory national radio and television networks;

IV-develop and deploy EBC technological upgrade projects; and

V-plan, organize, and drive the execution of EBC's information technology activities.

CHAPTER IX

OF THE FISCAL COUNCIL

Art. 25. The EBC Tax Council shall consist of three members, and their alternates, appointed by the President of the Republic, for the exercise of their assignments by the term of four years, vetted with redriving, being:

I-a member indicated by the Secretariat of Social Communication of the Presidency of the Republic;

II-a member appointed by the Minister of State for Finance, as a representative of the National Treasury; and

III-a member indicated by the minority shareholders, or, in the absence of these, by a representative appointed by the Minister of State Head of the Secretariat of Social Communication of the Presidency of the Republic.

§ First members of the Fiscal Council, at their first meeting, will elect their President, to which it will be fit to comply with the deliberations of the organ.

§ 2nd The Fiscal Council meet, ordinarily, every two months and, extraordinarily, whenever convened by the Board of Directors.

§ 3rd The decisions of the Fiscal Council will be taken by a simple majority, by the President the quality vote, in the event of a tie.

§ 4th In the case of absence, the member of the Fiscal Council will be replaced by the respective alternating.

§ 5th In the case of vacancy or remoteness, the alternate member will occupy the post until it is indicated the new advisor to supplement the remaining term.

§ 6th The Fiscal Council you will be able to ask EBC for the designation of qualified personnel to secretariate it and provide you with technical support.

Paragraph 7th The term of the mandate will count from the designation, in the terms of the caput.

§ 8th In addition to the remaining hypotheses in law, the function of member of the Fiscal Council shall be deemed to be vacant who, without justified cause, shall cease to exercise his or her assignments by more than two consecutive meetings or three alternates.

§ 9th Findo the mandate, the member of the Fiscal Council will remain in the exercise of the function until the investiture of the new holder.

Art. 26. They may only be elected to the Fiscal Council natural persons, residents in the Country, graduates of a university level course, or who have exercised, by a minimum of three years, post of company administrator or tax advisor.

§ 1st cannot be assigned to the Fiscal Council in addition to the persons listed in the paragraphs of Article 147 of the Law no 6,404 of December 15, 1976, members of boards of directors and employees of EBC, and the spouse or relative, to the third degree, of company administrator.

§ 2nd The remuneration of the members of the Fiscal Council, in addition to the reimbursement, obligatory, of locomotion expenses and stay necessary for the performance of the function, will be fixed by the general assembly and will not exceed, in any hypothesis, at ten percent of the average monthly remuneration of the directors.

Art. 27. The deliberations of the Fiscal Council will be launched in book of atas of the Fiscal Council.

Art. 28. Compete with the Fiscal Council:

I-scrutinize the acts of the administrators and check the compliance with its legal and statutory duties;

II-follow up with financial management and eBC's heritage and scrutinize budget execution, and may examine books and documents, as well as request information;

III-opines on the annual report of the administration, making the record of its opinion the supplementary information judging necessary or useful to the deliberation of the assembly general;

IV-opining on the proposals of the administration's bodies, concerning modification of the social capital, the investment plans or capital budgets, distribution of dividends, transformation, incorporation, merger or spin-off;

V-denounce to the governing bodies and, if these do not make necessary arrangements for the protection of the interests of EBC, to the general assembly, the errors, frauds, crimes or illicit that to take notice of and suggest providence;

VI-analyze, at least quarterly, the Balte and too many financial statements drawn up periodically by EBC;

VII-examine the financial statements of the social exercise and about them opinion;

VIII-exercise its assignments, during the liquidation, in view of the special provisions that regulate it;

IX-pronount on matters of its assignment that are submitted to it by the Board of Directors or by the Executive Board;

X-convene the ordinary general assembly if the organs of the administration delay more than one month this convocation, and extraordinary, whenever serious or urgent grounds occur, including on the agenda of the assemblies the subjects they deem necessary;

XI-attend meetings of the Board of Directors or of the Executive Board in the matters in which by force of law should opinion;

XII-provide the shareholder or group of shareholders, who represent, in the minimum, five percent of the social capital, whenever requested, information on matters of its competence; and

XIII-elaboration and approve your internal regiment.

Paragraph single. The attributions and powers conferred by law or by this Statute to the Fiscal Council may not be bestowed upon another organ of the EBC.

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DO COUNCIL CURADOR

Art. 29. The EBC's Curatorial Council, an organ of a consultative and deliberative nature, will be integrated by twenty members, designated by the President of the Republic.

§ First cardholders of the Curator Council will be chosen from among Natos Brazilians or naturalized more than ten years ago, of unleased and recognized public spirit, according to the following composition:

I-Minister of State Head of the Secretariat of Social Communication of the Presidency of the Republic;

II-Minister of State of Culture;

III-Minister of State for Education;

IV-Minister of State for Science and Technology;

V-a representative of the EBC officials, elected by the officials themselves upon direct and secret voting, in the form of the internal regiment; and

VI-fifteen representatives of civil society, designated by the President of the Republic, indicated second criteria of regional representation, cultural diversity and plurality of professional experiences.

§ 2nd is vetted to indicate to the Curator Council of:

I-person who has bond of parentage to third degree with member of the Executive Board; and

II-public agent held office holder elective or vested solely in office in free commission of the Union, states, Federal District or Municipalities, to the exception of those referred to in the incisors I, II, III, IV and V of § 1st.

§ 3rd The counsellor referred to in the inciso V of § 1st will be given two-year term, vetted for redriving.

§ 4th The first councillors referred to in the inciso VI of § 1st will be chosen and assigned by the President of the Republic for two-and four-year terms, being eight councillors for the two-year term and seven councillors for the four-year term.

§ 5th The mandate of the holders of the Curator Council referred to in the inciso VI of § 1st will be four years, renewable for a single time.

§ 6th Findo the mandate, the member of the Curator Council will remain in the exercise of the function up to the designation of the new holder.

§ 7th The members of the Curator Council referred to in the incisos V and VI of the § 1st will lose the mandate in the hypotheses of resignation, judicial process with definitive decision, or in the assumption of unwarranted absence to three sessions of the collegiate, during the twelve-month period.

§ 8th The members of the Curator Council referred to in the inciso VI of § 1st will also lose the mandate by decision of the President of the Republic, upon the provocation of three fifths of the entirety of its members.

§ 9th The member of the Curator Council referred to in the inciso V will receive reimbursement of the locomotion and stay expenses required for the performance of the function.

Art. 30. The Curatorial Council will be able to ask the EBC for the designation of qualified personnel to secretariate it and to provide you with technical support.

Art. 31. The determinations dispatched by the Curatorial Council, in the exercise of its assignments, are of cognate observance by the governing bodies.

Art. 32. The Curatorial Council shall convene, ordinarily, every two months and, extraordinarily, whenever convened by its President or by two-thirds of its members.

Art. 33. They will participate in the meetings of the Curatorial Council, with no voting rights, the Director-President and the EBC's Director-General.

Art. 34. The participation of the members of the Curatorial Council referred to in the inciso VI of the § 1st Art. 29, at your meetings, you will be remunerated for the reason of ten per cent of the remuneration perceived by the Director-President, and your expenses for displacement and stay, for the exercise of your assignments, will be borne by EBC.

Art. 35. It is incumbent on the Curatorial Council:

I-approve, annually, the planning proposed by the Board of Programming and Content, seeking to always keep you aligned to the educational, artistic, cultural, and informative guidelines integral to the communication policy to be observed by EBC;

II-ensure fulfillment of the principles and objectives described in the arts. 2nd and 3rd of this Statute;

III-opinionated on matters related to compliance with the principles and objectives described in the arts. 2nd and 3rd of this Statute

IV-approving the educational, artistic, cultural and members of the communication policy proposed by the EBC Executive Directorate;

V-approve, annually, editorial line of production and programming proposed by the Directorate of Journalism, seeking to always keep it aligned to the principles and objectives of EBC, manifesting itself about its application in practice;

VI-deliberating, by the absolute majority of its members, as to the imputation of vote of no confidence to the members of the Executive Board, with regard to the fulfillment of the principles and objectives described in the arts. 2nd and 3rd of this Statute, guaranteed the right to the oitiveness of the object member of the vote;

VII- eleger, among its members, the President, by direct vote; and

VIII-approve your internal regiment.

Single paragraph. It will still be up to the Curatorial Council to monitor the process of public consultation, to be implemented by EBC, for the renewal of its composition, concerning the members referred to in the inciso VI of § 1st Art. 29.

CHAPTER XI

DAS AREAS OF EXECUTIVE BOARD ADVISORY

Art. 36. They integrate the Advisory Board's Advisory Board, without prejudice to other advising bodies that come to be created by the Director-President:

I-the Legal Advising; and

II-the Registry;

Art. 37. Compete for Legal Advising:

I-control and follow up on the legal aspects of EBC;

II-assist judicial and extrajudicially the EBC in all processes, in all areas of law;

III-respond by preventive advocacy in all areas of EBC;

IV-attend to requests and propose legal solutions to the internal areas of EBC;

V-examine beforehand the legality of all contracts, agreements, adjustments and arrangements, as well as the minuta of editions, tenders and public tenders;

VI-request the hiring of external lawyers whenever necessary; and

VII-establish interlocalization channels and institutional follow-up with the EBC's remaining airs for updating, approval, diffusion and guard, both in physical and magnetic medium, of normative instruments, as well as for the sharing of legal information between the multiple areas of work.

Art. 38. The Registry, linked to the Director-General of EBC, will have the following assignments:

I- provide assistance to the Boards of Directors and Curator and the Director-Chair of EBC;

II-give support to the Executive Directorate in the execution of the shares of the Director-Geral;

III-assist and give support to the political and institutional representation activities of the Director-President;

IV-receive and forward officials and personalities in visit to the Executive Directorate;

V-carry out the activities of general secretariats in administrative support to the Executive Directorate; and

VI-give support to the working groups.

CHAPTER XII

DAS COMPLEMENTARY AREAS

Art. 39. EBC will have an Ouvidoria, bound to the Director-President, to which it competes:

I- offer channels of communication with the citizen, assuring him the right to criticism and suggestions on the content and programming of EBC; and

II-send reasoned response to citizens, heard the area's Directors, and through the EBC communication system, with strategic targeting of the Director-President.

Art. 40. EBC will have Internal Audit, bound by the Board of Directors, to which it competes to carry out the accounting, financial, budgetary, administrative, administrative, and operational nature audit activities of the EBC, with the guidance normative and technical supervision of the Union's Controller-General and in accordance with the relevant legislation, as well as to propose the preventive and corrective measures of the deviations detected and verify compliance and implementation, by EBC, of recommendations or determinations effected by the central and sectoral organs of the Internal Control System of the Executive Power, by the Court of Auditors of the Union and by the Fiscal Council.

§ First the holder of the Internal Audit, entitled employee of the EBC, will be assigned and impeached, by proposal of the Director-President, by the Board of Directors, and, after, submitted to the approval of the Controller-General of the Union.

§ 2nd The planning of the internal audit activities will be consigned to PAINT for each social exercise, which is to be submitted in advance to the analysis of the Controller-General of the Union, until the last working day of the month of November of the financial year prior to that of its execution.

§ 3rd The PAINT, drawn up in accordance with the standards of the Union Controller-General, is to be approved by the Board of Directors until the last working day of the month of December of the exercise prior to that of its execution and forwarded to that organ until the January 31 of each year to be applied.

§ 4th Annual results of internal audit work will be presented in the Annual Report of Internal Audit Activities-RAINT, in accordance with the norms of the Controllment-General of the Union, which is to be forwarded to it by the January 31 of the subsequent exercise.

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DO SOCIAL EXERCISE, PROFIT, DIVIDEND AND RESERVES

Art. 41. The EBC social exercise will correspond to the calendar year and the financial statements will be drawn up on December 31 of each exercise.

§ 1st The financial statements, in addition to the legal and regulatory requirements, must contain:

I-balance sheet;

II-demonstration of the result of the exercise;

III-demonstration of the accumulated profits or damage or demonstrations of the heritage mutations; and

IV-demonstrations of the origins and applications of the features.

§ 2nd The financial statements of which treats the caput of this article will be audited by independent auditors registered in the Securities Commission-CVM.

§ 3rd The financial statements, accompanied by the opinion of the independent auditors, the Internal Audit, the Fiscal Council and the Board of Directors ' demonstration, they will be referred to the deliberation of the general assembly and then forwarded to the Registry of Communication Social of the Presidency of the Republic.

Art. 42. The Board of Directors, effectuating the deduction to meet the accumulated damage and the provision for income tax, will propose to the general assembly the targeting of the result of the exercise, observed the following:

I-five percent of the net profit for constitution of the legal reserve, until this reach twenty percent of the social capital; and

II-twenty-five percent of the adjusted net profit, at a minimum, for the payment of dividends to shareholders, in the proportion of their shares.

§ 1st Observed to current legislation, the Board of Directors will be able to propose to the general assembly the payment to the interest shareholders on the equity or dividend capital, at the remuneration title.

§ 2nd On the values of dividends and interest, in the title of remuneration on the equity capital, due to the shareholders, will focus financial charges equivalent to the SELIC rate, from the end of the social exercise to the day of the effective pick-up or payment, without prejudice to the incidence of moratory interest whenever such pick-up or payment not to be checked on the date fixed in law or deliberation of the general assembly, and shall be regarded as the daily rate, for the updating of that value during the five working days prior to the date of payment or pickup, the same SELIC rate released on the fifth working day leading up to the day of the effective discharge of the obligation.

§ 3rd The accumulated damage will be deducted, compulsorily, from the accumulated profit, profit reserves and legal reserve, in that order, to, only then, come to be deducted from the social capital in the manner provided for in the art. 173 of the Act in 6,404, from 1976.

§ 4th of the net profit for the financial year, after deductions previous, the Board of Directors will be able to propose to the general assembly the percentage of employee participation in the profits earned, in each exercise, in the form of the legislation in force.

§ 5th The balance of profit, after the statutory and statutory targets, will be put at the disposal of the general assembly, accompanied by an application plan submitted by the Board of Directors, by proposal of the Executive Board and approved by the Fiscal Council.

CHAPTER XIII

DO STAFF

Art. 43. The legal regime of EBC staff will be that of the Consolidation of Labor Laws and their supplementary legislation.

Art. 44. The hiring of the permanent staff of the EBC will be by means of public tender for evidence or evidence and titles, observed the specific standards edited by the Board of Directors

Art. 45. The posts in committee or managerial trust function and advisor to the EBC will be occupied by designation of the Director-President, in observance of legal devices on matter.

Art. 46. EBC will be able to sponsor closed entity of private welfare, pursuant to the current legislation.

Paragraph single. The sponsorship of which treats the caput can be done by adhering to the closed entity of private foresight already existing.

CHAPTER XIV

DAS GENERAL PROVISIONS

Art. 47. The EBC will assure the members and former members of the Executive Board, the Boards of Directors and Fiscal and their employees the defence in legal and administrative proceedings against them instituted by the practice of acts in the exercise of the job title, activity or function, as long as there is no mismatch with the interests of the company.

§ 1st The form of the benefit mentioned in the caput will be defined by the Board of Directors, listened to the legal area of EBC.

§ 2nd The EBC will be able to maintain, in the form and extent defined by the Board of Directors, observed, in what couber, the provisions of the caput, permanent insurance contract in favor of the persons there mentioned, to restucate them of liability for acts or facts by which they may eventually come to be demanded judicial or administratively.

§ 3rd If any of the people mentioned in the caput are convicted, with court decision transitioned in judged, on the grounds of violation of the law or of the statute or arising from the doleful act, should ressarcate the EBC of all costs and expenses arising from the defense, in addition to possible damages.

Art. 48. It is vetted to EBC to grant funding or provide bail to third parties, under any modality, in business extraneous to their purposes, as well as to carry out contributions or to grant aid not consigned to the budget.

Art. 49. The trustees, the members of the Board of Directors, Curator and Fiscal and the EBC employees invested in positions of trust, direction, advisor or managerial, when they assume, annually and when leaving their duties, they are expected to present declaration of goods and income, in accordance with the current legislation.

Art. 50. For deployment purposes, the EBC is equated with the legal persons referred to in the art. 1st Law No 8,745 of December 9, 1993, with views to the hiring of technical and administrative staff for a definite time.

§ It is deemed to be a temporary necessity for exceptional public interest, for the effects of the Act in 8,745, 1993, the hiring of technical and administrative staff for a definite time, which is necessary for the initial functioning of EBC.

§ 2nd the hiring to which the caput refers will observe the willing in the art caput. 3rd, in the art. 6th, in the inciso II of the art. 7th and in the arts. 9th and 12 of the Act in 8,745, 1993, and will not be able to exceed the period of thirty-six months, from the date of the EBC's installation.

§ 3rd During the first ninety days to be counted from the publication of this Decree, it may be hired, in the terms of the caput and the § 1st, upon examination of curriculum vitae, and in the quantitative approved by the Minister of State Head of the Secretariat of Social Communication of the Presidency of the Republic, technical and administrative staff for fulfillment of temporary need of exceptional public interest, by the imextendable deadline of thirty-six months.

Art. 51. The EBC shall be governed by the Provisional Measure no 398 of October 10, 2007 by the Act in 6,404, 1976, by this Statute and by the other standards applicable to it.