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Provisional Measure No. 1,999-15, Of 11 February 2000

Original Language Title: Medida Provisória nº 1.999-15, de 11 de Fevereiro de 2000

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Interim measure No 1.999-15 of February 11, 2000.

Altera devices of the Law No. 9,649 of May 27, 1998, which provides on the organization of the Presidency of the Republic and of the Ministries, and gives other arrangements.

THE PRESIDENT OF THE REPUBLIC, in the use of the attribution that confers it on art. 62 of the Constitution, adopts the following Provisional Measure, as a force of law:

Art. 1º The Law No. 9,649 of May 27, 1998, passes the following with the following amendments:

?Art. 1º The Presidency of the Republic is constituted, essentially, by the Civil House, the General Secretariat, the Secretary of Government Communication and the Institutional Security Bureau.

§ 1º integrates the Presidency of the Republic as an organ of immediate advising to the President of the Republic:

I-the Council of the Government;

II-the Advocate-General of the Union;

III-the Special Development Office Urban; and

IV-the Office of the President of the Republic;

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?Art. 2º To the Civil House of the Presidency of the Republic shall compete directly and immediately to the President of the Republic in the performance of his assignments, especially in the coordination and integration of the Government's actions, in the prior verification of the constitutionality and legality of the presidential acts, in the analysis of merit, timeliness and compatibility of the proposals with the governmental guidelines, as well as supervise and execute the administrative activities of the Presidency of the Republic and supplement to the Vice Presidency of the Republic, having as a basic structure the Community Solidaria Programme, the Deliberative Council of the Amazon Protection System, the Cabinet, two Secretaries, being an Executive, up to two subchefias, and an internal Control Body.? (NR)

?Art. 3º To the General Secretariat of the Presidency of the Republic compete to attend directly and immediately to the President of the Republic in the performance of his assignments, carry out the political coordination of the Government, the relationship with the National Congress, the interlocalization with the States, the Federal District and the Municipalities, political parties and civil society entities, having as the basic structure the Cabinet, the Undersecretariat-General and up to two Secretaries.? (NR)

?Art. 4º To the Secretary of Government Communication of the Presidency of the Republic compete directly and immediately to the President of the Republic in the performance of his assignments, especially in the matters concerning the policy of communication and dissemination Government and the deployment of informative programs, with the coordination, supervision and control of the publicity of the organs and entities of the Federal Public Administration, direct and indirect, and of companies under control of the Union, and convene mandatory radio and television networks, having as basic structure the Cabinet and up to three Secretaries.? (NR)

?Art. 5º To the Special Secretary for Urban Development of the Presidency of the Republic compete to attend directly and immediately to the President of the Republic in the performance of his assignments, especially in the formulation and coordination of national policies of urban development, and promote, in articulation with the diverse spheres of government, with the private sector and non-governmental organizations, actions and programs of urbanization, housing, sanitation, and urban transportation, having as basic structure the Cabinet and up to three Secretaries.? (NR)

?Art. 6º To the Office of Institutional Security of the Presidency of the Republic compete directly and immediately to the President of the Republic in the performance of his assignments, to prevent the occurrence and to articulate crisis management, in the event of a serious and looming threat to institutional stability, carry out personal advisement in military affairs, coordinate federal intelligence and communications security activities, ensure the personal security of the Chief of Staff, of the Vice-President of the Republic, and their relatives, of the holders of the essential organs of the Presidency of the Republic, and of other authorities or personalities when determined by the President of the Republic, and thus for the security of the presidential palaces, having as a basic structure the National Antidrugs Council, the Brazilian Intelligence Agency-ABIN, the National Antidrug Registry, the Cabinet, a Registry and a Subkingship.

§ 1º Compete, still, to the Cabinet of Institutional Security, coordinate and integrate the Government's actions in the aspects related to the activities of preventing and suppressing the illicit trafficking, misuse and unauthorized production of narcotics and drugs that cause dependency, as well as those related to the treatment of dependents.

§ 2º The National Antidrug Registry will perform the activities of the National Antidrug Council's Executive Secretariat.

§ 3º Until such time as the new members are appointed and installed the National Anti-Drug Council, the application of the resources of the National Antidrug Fund-FUNAD will be made by the National Antidrug Registry, ad referendum of the collegiate, upon authorization of your president.? (NR)

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I-Council of Government, integrated by the Ministers of State, by the holders of the bodies essential of the Presidency of the Republic and the Advocate General of the Union, which shall be chaired by the President of the Republic, or, by his determination, by the Head of the Civil House, and secretariat by one of the members for this purpose designated by the President of the Republic;

II-Chambers of the Council of Government, to be created in an act of the Executive Power, with the purpose of formulating sectoral public policies, the scope of which exceeds the competences of a single Ministry.

§ 1º To develop the executive actions of the Chambers mentioned in the inciso II, will be constituted Executive Committees, whose composition and functioning will be defined in an act of the Executive Power.

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Single paragraph. The National Defense Council and the Council of the Republic will have as Secretary-Executives respectively, the Head of the Institutional Security Bureau and the Head of the Civil House.? (NR)

?Art. 13. The Ministries are as follows:

I-of Agriculture and Supply;

II-of Science and Technology;

III-of Communications;

IV-of Culture;

V-of Defense;

VI-of Development, Industry and Foreign Trade;

VII-of Education;

VIII-of Sport and Tourism;

IX-da Fazenda;

X-of National Integration;

XI-of Justice;

XII-of the Environment;

XIII-of Mines and Energy;

XIV-of Planning, Budget, and Management;

XV-of the Agrarian Development;

XVI-of Welfare and Social Assistance;

XVII-of Foreign Relations;

XVIII-of Health;

XIX-of the Work and Employment;

XX-of-the Transport.

Single paragraph. Are Ministers of State the Titular of the Ministries, the Head of the Civil House, the Head of the Institutional Security Bureau, the Head of the General Secretariat and the Head of the Government Communication Office of the Presidency of the Republic.? (NR)

?Art. 14. The subjects that constitute the area of competence of each Ministry are as follows:

I-Ministry of Agriculture and Supply:

a) agricultural policy, covering production, marketing, supply, storage and guarantee of minimum prices;

b) production and fomenting agrolivestock, inclusive of fishing activities and heveiculture;

c) market, marketing and agri-livestock supply, inclusive regulatory and strategic stockpiles;

d) agricultural information;

e) animal and plant health defense;

f) surveillance of inputs used in the agri-animal and the provision of services in the sector;

g) classification and inspection of animal and plant products and derivatives;

h) protection, conservation and manhandling of the soil, aimed at the agricultural and livestock production process;

i) technological research in agriculture and animal husbandry;

j) meteorology and climatology;

l) cooperativism and rural associativism;

m) rural energization, agroenergy, inclusive rural electrification;

n) technical assistance and rural extension;

o) policy concerning coffee, sugar and alcohol;

p) planning and exercise of government action in the activities of the sector agribusiness canavieiro;

II-Ministry of Science and Technology:

a) national scientific and technological research policy;

b) planning, coordination, supervision and control of the activities of science and technology;

c) policy of development of informatics and automation;

d) national biosafeed policy;

e) spatial policy;

f) nuclear policy;

g) export control of sensitive goods and services;

III-Ministry of Communications:

a) national telecommunication policy, inclusive broadcasting;

b) regulation, outorship and surveillance of telecommunication services;

c) control and administration of the use of the spectrum of radiofreequities;

d) postal services;

IV- Ministry of Culture:

a) national culture policy;

b) protection of historical and cultural heritage;

c) fulfillment of the provisions of the art. 68 of the Act of the Transitional Constitutional Provisions;

V-Ministry of Defense:

a) national defense policy;

b) policy of military strategies;

c) doctrine and employment planning of the Armed Forces;

d) special projects of interest of national defense;

and) strategic and operational intelligence of defense interest;

f) military operations of the Armed Forces;

g) international relationship of the Armed Forces;

h) defense budget;

i) military legislation;

j) policy of national mobilization;

l) science and technology policy in the Armed Forces;

m) media policy in the Armed Forces;

n) remuneration policy of the military and Pensioners;

o) fosters the activities of research and development and production and export in areas of defense interest;

p) acting of the Armed Forces in preserving public order, in combating the transboundary or environmental offences, civil defence and national development;

q) military logistics;

r) military service;

s) assistance to the health, social, and religious of the Forces Armed;

t) constitution, organization, effective, adestration and rushing of the naval forces, land and areas;

u) national maritime policy;

v) security of air navigation and of the aquaviary traffic and safeguarding human life at sea;

x) national aeronautical policy and acting in national policy of development of aerospace activities;

z) aerospace infrastructure, aeronautics and airport;

VI-Ministry of Development, Industria the Foreign Trade:

a) policy of development of industry, trade and services;

b) property intellectual and technology transfer;

c) metrology, normalization and industrial quality;

d) foreign trade policies;

e) regulation and execution of the programs and activities relating to foreign trade;

f) application of trade defence mechanisms;

g) participations in international negotiations concerning foreign trade;

h) formulation of the policy of support for micro enterprise, small business and handicraft company;

i) execution of the registration and trade activities;

VII-Ministry of Education:

a) national education policy;

b) children's education;

c) education in general, understanding fundamental education, high school, higher education, youth and adult education, vocational education, special education and distance education, except military education;

d) assessment, information, and educational research;

e) research and university extension;

f) magistery;

VIII-Ministry of Sport and Tourism:

a) national tourism development policy and sports practice;

b) promotion and dissemination of national tourism, in the Country and abroad;

c) stimulates public initiatives and private incentive for tourism and sports activities;

d) planning, coordination, supervision and evaluation of tourism and sports incentive plans and programs;

IX-Ministry of the Farm:

a) currency, credit, financial institutions, capitalization, popular savings, private insurance and open private provident;

b) politics, administration, taxation and tax revenue and customs;

c) financial administration, internal control, auditing and public accounting;

d) administration of internal and external public debts;

and) economic negotiations and financial with governments, multilateral bodies and government agencies;

f) prices in general and administrative public tariffs;

g) surveillance and control of foreign trade;

h) carrying out studies and research for monitoring the economic conjuncture;

X-Ministry of National Integration:

a) formulation and conduct of the integrated national development policy;

b) formulation of regional development plans and programs;

c) establishment of integration strategies of regional economies;

d) establishment of the guidelines and priorities in the Application of the resources of the funding programmes of which it deals with (c)? of the inciso I of the art. 159 of the Federal Constitution;

e) establishment of the guidelines and priorities in the application of the resources of the Northeast-FINOR Investment Fund, the Amazon Investment Fund-FINAM and the Recovery Fund Economic from the State of the Holy Spirit-FUNRES;

f) establishment of standards for compliance with the funding programs of the constitutional funds and the budget schedules of regional investment funds;

g) monitoring and evaluation of the integrated national development programmes;

h) civil defence;

i) works against the droughts and water infrastructure;

j) formulation and conduct of the national irrigation policy;

l) territorial ordinance;

m) public works on border strips;

XI-Ministry of Justice:

a) defense of legal order, political rights and constitutional guarantees;

b) judicial policy;

c) citizenship rights, rights of the child, adolescent, Indians and minorities;

d) narcotics, public safety, transit, Federal Polices, Road and Federal Railway and the Federal District;

e) advocacy of the rights of persons with disabilities and promotion of their integration to life community;

f) defense of the national economic order and consumer rights;

g) planning, coordination and administration of the national penitentiary policy;

h) nationality, immigration and foreign nationals;

i) documentation, publication and file of the official acts;

j) ouvidoria-general

l) hearing of federal policemen;

m) legal aid, judicial and extrajudicial full and free, to the needy, thus considered in law;

XII-Ministry of the Environment:

a) national policy of the environment and water resources;

b) policy of preservation, conservation and sustainable use of ecosystems, and biodiversity and forests;

c) proposition of economic and social strategies, mechanisms, and instruments for quality improvement environmental and the sustainable use of natural resources;

d) policies for integration of the environment and production;

and) environmental policies and programs for the Legal Amazonia; and

f) ecological-econometric zoning;

XIII-Ministry of Mines and Energy:

a) geology, mineral and energy resources;

b) harnessing hydraulic energy;

c) mining and metallurgy;

d) oil, fuel and electrical energy, inclusive nuclear;

XIV-Ministry of Planning, Budget and Management:

a) formulation of the strategic planning national;

b) assessment of the socio-economic impacts of Federal Government policies and programs and drawing up of special studies for policy reformulation;

c) conducting studies and research for monitoring of the socio-economic conjuncture and management of national cartographic and statistical systems;

d) elaboration, monitoring and evaluation of the multiannual plan of investments and annual budgets;

e) viabilization of new resource sources for the government plans;

f) formulation of guidelines, coordination of the negotiations, follow-up and evaluation of the external financing of public projects with multilateral bodies and government agencies;

g) coordination and management of the federal planning and budget systems, civil personnel, organization and administrative modernization, resource administration of the information and informatics and general services;

h) formulation and guidelines and control of the management of state-owned enterprises;

i) monitoring of the public sector tax performance;

j) heritage administration;

l) policy and guidelines for State Modernization;

XV-Ministry of Agrarian Development:

a) agrarian reform;

b) promotion of the sustainable development of the rural segment comprised of family farmers;

XVI-Ministry of Welfare and Social Care:

a) social security;

b) provident complimentary;

c) social assistance;

XVII-Foreign Ministry:

a) international policy;

b) diplomatic relations and consular services;

c) participation in the trade, economic, technical and cultural negotiations with foreign governments and entities;

d) international cooperation programs;

and) support for delegations, comitives and Brazilian representations in international and multilateral agencies and bodies;

XVIII-Ministry of Health:

a) national health policy;

b) coordination and surveillance of the System Single of Health;

c) environmental health and actions of promotion, protection and recovery of individual and collective health, including that of workers and Indians;

d) health information;

e) critical inputs to health;

f) preventive action in general, surveillance and sanitary control of borders and seaports, fluvial and air;

g) health surveillance, especially drugs, medicines and food;

h) scientific research and technology in the area of health;

XIX-Ministry of Labour and Employment:

a) policy and guidelines for employment generation and income and support for the worker;

b) policy and guidelines for the modernization of labor relations;

c) work surveillance, inclusive of port work, as well as application of the penalties provided for in legal standards or collective;

d) wage policy;

e) training and professional development;

f) safety and health at work;

g) immigration policy;

XX -Ministry of Transport:

a) national rail, road and aquaviary transport policy;

b) merchant shipping, ports and waterways;

c) participation in the coordination of the Aero transport.

§ 1º In cases of public calamity or the need for special population service, the President of the Republic will be able to have the collaboration of the Ministries with the different levels of the Public Administration.

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§ 5º Compete to the Secretaries of State:

I-of Human Rights, the one that refers to the inciso X of the art. 16:

a) rights of citizenship, rights of the child, adolescent and minorities;

b) advocacy of the rights of persons with disabilities and promotion of their integration to community life;

II-of Social Assistance to which the inciso XV of the art is referred to. 16:

a) welfare policy;

b) normatization, guidance, supervision and evaluation of the implementation of the welfare policy;

§ 6º The competence conferred on the Ministry of the National Integration of which it treats point?I?, inciso X, will be exercised in conjunction with the Ministry of Defence.

§ 7º The competence assigned to the Ministry of the Environment of which it deals with point?f?, inciso XII, will be exercised in conjunction with the Ministry of Agriculture and Supply, Development, Industria and Foreign Trade and National Integration.

§ 8º The competence concerning the rights of the Indians, assigned to the Ministry of Justice in paragraph?c?, inciso XI, includes monitoring of health actions developed for the benefit of Indigenous communities.

§ 9º The competence of which deals with point?m? of the inciso I will be exercised by the Ministry of Agriculture and Supply, when based on resources from the General Budget of the Union, and by the Ministry of Mines and Energy, when based on resources linked to the National Electrical System.? (NR)

?Art. 15. There will be, in the basic structure of each Ministry:

I-Secretariat-Executive, except in the Ministries of Defense and Foreign Relations;

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§ 2º Caberá to the Executive Secretary, holder of the organ referred to in the inciso I, in addition to the supervision and coordination of the integral Secretaries of the structure of the Ministry, except of the State Secretaries, shall exercise the functions assigned to it by the Minister of State.

§ 3º Could there be in the basic structure of each Ministry, linked to the Executive Secretariat, a body responsible for the administration activities of personnel, material, heritage, general and budget services and finance.? (NR)

?Art. 16. They integrate the basic structure:

I-from the Ministry of Agriculture and Supply to the National Agricultural Policy Council, the Deliberative Council of Coffee Policy, the Special Resources Committee, the Executive Board of the Plan of the Lavoura Cacaueira, the National Institute of Meteorology and up to four Secretaries;

II-of the Ministry of Science and Technology the National Council of Science and Technology, the National Council of Informatics and Automation, the National Institute of Space Research, the National Institute of Amazonian Research, the National Institute of Technology, the National Technical Committee on Biosafetics and up to four Secretaries;

III-of the Ministry of Communications up to two Secretaries;

IV-from the Ministry of Culture the National Cultural Policy Council, the National Commission on Encouragement to Culture, the Film Commission and up to four Secretaries;

V-do Ministry of Defense, the Military Defense Council, the Navy Command, the Army Command, the Aeronautics Command, the Defense General Staff, the Higher School of War, the Armed Forces Hospital, the Armed Forces Catalyogation Center, Brazilian Representation at the Inter-American Defense Junta, up to three Secretaries and an Internal Control Body;

VI-of the Ministry of Development, Industria and Foreign Trade the National Metrology Council, Standardization and Industrial Quality, the National Council of the Export Processing Zones and up to four Secretaries;

VII-of the Ministry of Education the National Board of Education, the Benjamin Constant Institute, the National Institute of Deaf Education and up to five Secretaries;

VIII-of the Minister of Finance the National Monetary Council, the National Council of Finance, the National Financial System Resource Council, the National Financial System Resources Board, the National Board of Private Insurance, the Board of Resources of the National Private Insurance System, of Private Welfare Open to Capitalization, the Financial Activities Control Board, the Superior Chamber of Tax Resources, the Commission of Coordination of Internal Control, the 1º, 2º and 3º Boards of Contributors, the Board Director of the Export Guarantee Fund-CFGE, the Brazilian Committee of Nomenclature, the Overseas Credit Assessment Committee, the Attorney General of the Finance National, the Graduate School of Administration and up to six Secretaries;

IX-of the Ministry of National Integration the Deliberative Council of the Central-Western Financing Constitutional Fund and up to five Secretaries;

X-from the Ministry of Justice to the Secretary of State for Human Rights, the Human Rights Council of Human Rights, the National Council on Criminal and Penitentiary Policy, the National Transit Council, the National Council of the Women's Rights, the National Council on the Rights of the Child and the Adolescent, the National Public Safety Council, the Federal Gestor Council of the Defense of Difuss Rights Fund, the National Board of the Rights of the Person of the Child Disability, the Ouvidoria-General of the Federal Polices, the Federal Police Department, the Federal Highway Police Department, the National Archive, the National Press, the Ouvidoria-General of the Republic, the Union Public Defensoria and up to four Secretaries.

XI-from the Ministry of the Environment the National Council of the Environment, the National Council of the Amazon Legal, the National Council for Water Resources, the Deliberative Council of the National Environment Fund, the Research Institute Botanical Garden of Rio de Janeiro and up to five Secretaries;

XII-from the Ministry of Mines and Energy up to two Secretaries;

XIII-from the Ministry of Planning, Budget and Management to Committee on External Financing, the Economic Advisory and up to seven Secretaries;

XIV-from the Ministry of Agrarian Development the National Council for Rural Development and up to two Secretaries;

XV- of the Ministry of Welfare and Social Assistance, the Secretary of State for Social Welfare, the National Social Welfare Council, the National Social Assistance Council, the Social Welfare Resources Board, the Board of Management of the Supplementary Pension and up to two Secretaries;

XVI-from the Ministry of Foreign Affairs the Ceremonial, the Secretary of Diplomatic Planning, the Inspectorate-General of the Foreign Service, the General Secretariat of the Relations Exteriors, this comprised of up to three Undersecretaries, the Office of Internal Control, the Rio Branco Institute, the permanent diplomatic missions, the consular repartitions, the Council on Foreign Policy and the Promotion Commission;

XVII-from the Ministry of Health the National Board of Health and up to four Secretaries;

XVIII-from the Ministry of Labour and Employment the National Labor Council, the National Council on Immigration, the Curatorial Council of the Service Time Guarantee Fund, the Deliberative Council of the Amparo Fund to the Worker and up to three Secretaries.

XIX-of the Ministry of Transport the Federal Rail Transport Commission COFER and up to three Secretaries;

§ 1º The Council on Foreign Policy, referred to as the incisus XVI, shall be chaired by the Minister of State for Foreign Affairs and integrated by the General Secretariat, by the Deputy General Secretariat, by the Subsecretariats-General of the General Secretariat of Foreign Affairs and by the Chief of Staff of the Minister of State for Foreign Affairs.

§ 2º The Ouvidoria-General of the Federal Polices links directly to the Minister of State of Justice.

§ 3º The holder of the Ouvidoria-General of which it treats the preceding paragraph shall be appointed by the President of the Republic, for three-year term, after approval by the Federal Senate in the form of the art. 52, inciso III, paragraph?f?, of the Constitution.

§ 4º The State Secretaries of Human Rights and Social Assistance will be comprised of up to two finalistic secretaries.

§ 5º The organs collegiate members of the structure of the Ministry of Labor and Employment will have tripartite composition, observed parity between employee representatives, and from employers, in the form established by the Executive Power.? (NR)

?Art. 17. Are Transformed:

I-State Secretariat of Communication of Government of the Presidency of the Republic, in the Office of Government Communication of the Presidency of the Republic.

II-the Ministry of Planning and Budget, in the Ministry of Planning Budget and Management;

III-the Ministry of the Environment, Water Resources, and the Amazonia Legal, in Ministry of the Environment;

IV-the Ministry of Education and of the Sport, in the Ministry of Education;

V-the Ministry of Labor, in the Ministry of Labour and Employment;

VI-the Ministry of Industry, Trade and Tourism, in Ministry of Development, Industry and Foreign Comercio;

VII-the Federal Council of Entorpecents, in the National Anti-Drug Council;

VIII-the Ministry of the Navy, in Naval Command;

IX-the Ministry of the Army, in Command of the Army;

X-the Ministry of Aeronautics, in Command of Aeronautics;

XI-the Military House of the Presidency of the Republic, in Office of Institutional Security of the Presidency of the Republic; and

XII-the Cabinet of the Minister of State Extraordinary of Funeral Policy in Ministry of Agrarian Development.? (NR)

?Art. 18 ....................................................................................................................................

I-for the Ministry of Planning, Budget and Management:

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e) from the Secretary of State of Planning and Assessment of the Ministry of Finance.

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III-administrative, of the General Secretariat of the Presidency of the Republic for the Civil House of the Presidency of the Republic;

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IX-For the Ministry of National Integration as of Special Office of Regional Policies of the Regional Policy Chamber of the Regional Council of Government;

X-for the National Health Foundation-FUNASA of the Ministry of Health those of the National Indian Foundation's Foundation of the Ministry of Justice, related to the health assists of indigenous communities;

XI-from the Military House of the Presidency of the Republic to the Office of Institutional Security of the Presidency of the Republic;

XII-of the Cabinet of the Minister of State Extraordinary of Funeral Policy for the Ministry of Agrarian Development.? (NR)

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X-the Ministry of Federal Administration and Reformation of the State;

XI-the Secretary of Strategic Affairs of the Presidency of the Republic;

XII-the Cabinet referred to in the inciso I of the art. 4º of Law No. 9,615, of March 24, 1998;

XIII-the High Command of the Armed Forces; and

XIV-the General Staff of the Armed Forces.? (NR)

?Art. 22-A. They become extinct the posts of Secretary General of the Presidency of the Republic, Secretary for Strategic Affairs of the Presidency of the Republic, Secretary for Social Communication of the Presidency of the Republic, Minister of State of the Administration Federal and State Reform, Minister of State for Education and Sport, Minister of State for Labour, Minister of State for Industry, Trade and Tourism, Minister of State for the Environment, Water Resources and Amazonia Legal, Minister of State for Planning and Budget, Minister of State for the Navy, Minister of State for the Army, Minister of State for Aeronautics, Minister of State Chief of Staff of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, Minister of State Head of the Military House of the Presidency of the Republic, Minister of State for Fundraising Policy and Development, of Minister of State Extraordinary of the Sports, of Secretary of State of Government Communication and of the Executive Secretary of the Cabinet of the Minister of State Extraordinary of Funeral Policy.? (NR)

?Art. 24-A. The posts of Minister of State for Defence, Minister of State Chief of the Office of the Institutional Security of the Presidency of the Republic, Chief Minister of State of the Presidency of the Presidency of the Republic, of Minister of State, are created of National Integration, Minister of State for Education, Minister of State for Labour and Employment, Minister of State for Development, Industry and Foreign Trade, Minister of State for the Environment, Minister of State for Sport and Tourism, Minister of State for Planning, Budget and Management, Minister of State for Agrarian Development and Minister of State Head of the Secretary of Government Communication of the Presidency of the Republic.? (NR)

?Art. 25-A. The posts of Secretary of State for Urban Development, Secretary of State for Social Care, Secretary of State for Human Directions, Commander of the Navy, Commander of the Army and Commanding Officer of the Aeronautics.

§ 1º The Cargos of which treat the caput of this article are of Special Nature.

§ 2º The holder of the post of Special Secretary of Urban Development will have prerogatives, guarantees, advantages and directs equivalent to those of Minister of State.

§ 3º The remuneration of the posts of Secretary of State and Commander of which it treats the caput is R$ 7,200.00 (seven thousand and two hundred reais).? (NR)

?Art. 28 It is the Executive Power authorized to hold the servers and employees of the direct and indirect Federal Administration, occupiers or not of office in commission or function of direction, managerial or advisor who, on December 31, 1998, were to meet the provision of organs of direct Administration.

§ 1º To the servers and employees who, on December 31, 1998, were to be requisitioned and in exercise at the Ministry of Planning and Budget and the Federal Administration and Reform of the State, the provisions of the single paragraph of the art apply. 2º of Law No. 9,007 of March 17, 1995, while remaining in exercise at the Ministry of Planning, Budget and Management.

§ 2º Ficam kept in the Ministry of Planning, Budget and Management the functions of which it treats the art. 20 of Law No. 8,216 of August 13, 1991, until they are waived their occupants, when, then they will be deemed extinct.? (NR)

?Art. 28-A. The IPEA Informatics Centre and the respective heritage stay transferred from the Institute of Applied Economic Research Institute-IPEA, to the Ministry of Planning, Budget and Management.

Single paragraph. The servers of the IPEA Informatics Centre, transferred to the Ministry of Budget and Management on 1º January 1999, go on to once again integrate the IPEA personnel framework.? (NR)

?Art. 28-B. They are transferred from the National Indian Foundation of the Ministry of Justice to FUNASA:

I-the Posts of Health and Houses of the Indian maintained by the National Indian Foundation for health assistance of indigenous communities;

Il-the movable property, real estate, documentary and equipment, inclusive of vehicles, vessels and aircraft, which are intended for the exercise of the activities of assistance to the health of the Indian;

§ 1º Stay redistributed of the National Indian Foundation of the Ministry of Justice, to the FUNASA the effective, occupied or vacant positions on December 31, 1998, which are intended for the exercise of the activities of assistance to the health of the Indian.

§ 2º The occupant servers of the posts redistributed in the form of the preceding paragraph, without prejudice to their directs and advantages, will be booked in the specific health area of the Indian National Health Foundation.

§ 3º The transfers of which they treat inciso l and II will take effect until December 15, 1999, staying, since already, such goods at the disposal of FUNASA, without prejudice to the operational activities to them pertinent.? (NR)

?Art. 29. It is the Executive Power authorized to reapply, transpose, transfer or use the budgetary allocations approved in the Budget Law of 1999, in favor of the extinct organs, transformed, transferred, incorporated or dismembered by this Law, maintained the same functional classification-programmatic, expressed by programming category at its lowest level, as defined in the art. 6º, § 1º of Law No. 9,692 of July 27, 1998, inclusive of securities, descriptors, targets and objects, as well as respective detailing by budget sphere, expenditure groups, resource sources, application modalities and identifiers of use.

§ 1º Apply the procedures provided for in the caput to the advance credits in the form set out in art. 72 of Law No. 9,692, 1998.

§ 2º Apply for the procedures provided for in the caput to the budgetary allocations of the Ministry of Justice allocated in the headings relating to activities of which it treats § 1º of the art. 6º.? (NR)

?Art. 32. The Executive Power shall, in decree, have in decree the regimental structure of the Ministries, the essential body and the Special Office of the Urban Development of the Presidency of the Republic, on the competences and assignments, denomination of the units and specification of the posts.? (NR)

?Art. 37 Are created:

l-in the Federal Public Administration, thousand eight hundred and twenty-nine positions in committee and gratified functions, being in twelve of Special Nature, one thousand one hundred and twenty-six of the Group-Direction and Advising Superior-DAS and six hundred and ninety-one gratified functions, thus distributed: twenty-two DAS 6; one hundred and twenty-seven DAS 5; one hundred and forty-six DAS 4; one hundred and forty-nine DAS 3; six hundred and eighty and two DAS 1; six hundred and ninety-ninety and a FG1;

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III-na Federal Public Administration, in temporary character by the deadline of up to one hundred and eighty days, counted from June 10, 1999, one thousand two hundred and thirty-three positions in committee and gratified functions, being four hundred and forty nine of the Group-Direction and Superiors-DAS and setechundred and eighty-four gratified functions, thus distributed: ten DAS 3; two hundred and eighty-two DAS 2; one hundred and fifty and seven DAS 1; one hundred and six FG 1; one hundred and seventy eight FG 2; and four hundred and fifty FG 3.

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?Art. 37-A. They become extinct five thousand, two hundred and fifty and nine positions in committee and gratified functions, being six positions in committee of the Group-Direction and Advising Superiors, DAS 2, five thousand, two hundred and fifty and three gratified functions, thus distributions: one thousand two hundred and seventy one FG2 and three thousand nine hundred and eighty two FG 3.? (NR)

?Art. 40. The Executive Power shall have, until July 1, 2001, on the organization, reorganization, denomination of posts and functions and functioning of the organs and entities of the direct, municipal and the Federal Public Administration, upon approval or transformation of the regimental structures.? (NR)

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V-by the Ministry of Federal Administration and Reform of the State, for the Ministry of Planning, Budget and Management.? (NR)

?Art. 43. The vacant effective posts, or which come to wander from the extinct organs, will be remanded to the Ministry of Planning, Budget and Management for redistribution and the posts in committee and trust functions, transferred to the Management Office of the Ministry of Planning, Budget and Management, for use or extinction in accordance with the interest of the Public Administration.

Single paragraph. At the close of the works of invariance and in the terms set out in decree, they will be able to be remanded to the Ministry of Planning, Budget and Management, with the respective occupants, the posts and functions strictly necessary to the continuity of the accountability activities arising out of convenium, contracts and similar instruments firmed up by the extinct organs and their predecessors.? (NR)

?Art. 43-A. In the process of inventorying the General Staff of the Armed Forces, the gratuities to which the arts refer. 11 and 13 of the Law No. 8,460 of September 17, 1992, may be remanded to the Ministry of Defence in the necessary quantitative and values.? (NR)

?Art. 44. As long as it is not approved and deployed the effective provement framework of the Ministry of Sport and Tourism and the INDESP, it is the Minister of State for Sport and Tourism authorized to requisition servers of the direct Federal Administration to have exercise in those organs, regardless of the function to be exercised.? (NR)

?Art. 45. Until the regimental structures of the essential organs and advising of the Presidency of the Republic, the State Secretaries and the Ministries of which it treats art are approved. 13, the structures, competences, including transferees, the attributions to the denomination of the units and the specification of the respective posts, beholstered on July 29, 1999, are observed, observed the changes introduced by law.? (NR)

?Art. 48. The art. 17 of Law No. 8,025 of April 12, 1990, passes the vigour with the following essay:

?Art. 17. The real estate of treats the art. 14, when irregular its occupation, will be the object of reintegration of liminal possession in favor of the Union, regardless of the time in which the immovable is occupied.

§ 1º The Ministry of Planning, Budget and Management, by intermediate of the organ responsible for the administration of the real estate, it will be the depositary of the reintegrated furniture.

§ 2º dismissed the action of reintegration of possession in decision carried on trial, the Ministry of the Planning, Budget and Management will put the immovable at the disposal of the doomsday within five days of the subpoena to do so.? (NR)

?Art. 48-A. The caput of the art. 18 of Law No. 7,998 of January 11, 1990, it passes the invigoration with the following essays:

?Art. 18. Is the Deliberative Council of the Amparo Fund for Worker-CODEFAT, composed of representation of workers, employers and bodies and government entities, in the form established by the Executive Power.? (NR)

?Art. 49. The caput and the § 5º of the art. 3º of Law No. 8,036 of May 11, 1990, they go on to invigorate with the following essay:

?Art. 3º The FGTS will be governed by norms and guidelines established by a Curatorial Council, composed of representation of workers, employers and bodies and government entities, in the form established by the Executive Power.

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§ 5º The decisions of the Council will be taken with the presence of the simple majority of its members, having the President vote of quality.

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?Art. 50. The art. 22 of Law No. 9,028 of April 12, 1995, passes the vigour with the following essay:

?Art. 22. The Advocate-General of the Union and its linked bodies, in their respective areas of acting, shall be authorized to represent judicially the holders and members of the Powers of the Republic, of the Federal Institutions referred to in Title IV, Chapter IV, of the Constitution, inclusive of the holders of the Ministries and too many organs of the Presidency of the Republic, of federal authorities and public foundations, as well as those of positions of special nature and of Direction and Superiors (DAS) of levels 6, 5 and 4, as to practiced acts, in the exercise of their constitutional, legal or regulatory assignments, in the public interest, especially of the Union their respective authorities and foundations, or of the Institutions mentioned, and may, as yet, same acts, to prevent habeas Corpus and security warrant in defense of the public servants of which it treats this article.

Single paragraph. The provisions of this article apply to the former holders of the posts or functions referred to in the caput, and still:

I-those designated for the implementation of the special schemes provided for in Law No. 6,024 of March 13, 1974 in the Decrees-Laws #s 73, of November 21, 1966, and 2,321, of February 25, 1987; and

II-to the military of the Armed Forces when, due to the performance of the constitutional, legal or regulatory duty, respond to the police inquiry or the judicial process.? (NR)

?Art. 56. Is the Executive Power authorized to assign the organ or entities of the Federal Public Administration, divers from that to which the competence is assigned responsibility for the execution of the personnel, material, heritage administration activities, general services, budget and finance and internal control.? (NR)

?Art. 61. In the boards of directors of public companies, mixed-economy companies, and their subsidiaries and controlled and too many companies in which the Union, directly or indirectly detains the majority of the social capital entitled to vote, there will always be a member appointed by the Minister of State for Planning, Budget and Management.? (NR)

Art. 2º The art. 2º of Law No. 7,735 of February 22, 1989, with the wording given by law No. 7,804 of July 18, 1989, passes the vigour with the following essay:

?Art. 2º Is created the Brazilian Institute of the Environment and Renewable Natural Resources-IBAMA, the special regime of special regime, endowed with legal personalities of public law, bound by the Ministry of the Environment, with the purpose to implement national environment policies referring to permanent federal assignments concerning the preservation, conservation and sustainable use of environmental resources and their surveillance and control, as well as supporting the Ministry of the Environment Environment in the implementation of the National Water Resources Policy and in the implementation of the Union's supplementative actions, of compliance with the legislation in force and the guidelines of that Ministry.

Single paragraph. The Executive Power will have, from until April 30, 1999, on the regimental structure of the IBAMA.? (NR)

Art. 3º The arts. 8º and 9º of the Law No. 9,069 of June 29, 1995, they go on to invigorate with the following amendments:

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II-Minister of State for Planning, Budget and Management;

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III-Secretary-Executive of the Ministry of the Planning, Budget and Management;

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Art. 4º It is established the Coordination Commission of Meteorology, Climatology and Hydrology-CMCH activities, linked to the Ministry of Science and Technology with the purpose of coordinating national policy for the sector, to be regulated by the Executive Power.

Art. 5º It is the Executive Power authorized to:

I-extinguishing the Function Technological Center for informatics, instituted in accordance with the provisions of the arts. 32 a to 39 of Law No. 7,232 of October 29, 1984;

II-transfer of the Mineral-CETEM Technology Centre, of which it treats Law No. 7,677 of October 21, 1988, of the National Council for Scientific and Technological Development -CNPq for the Ministry of Science and Technology.

Art. 6º Ficam transferred from the Ministry of Agriculture and Supply to the Office of the Minister of State Extraordinary of Police Funding the assignments related to the promotion of sustainable development of the rural segment made up of family farmers.

Art. 7º The Law No. 9,257 of January 9, 1996, passes the following with the following amendments:

?Art. 2º The National Council of Science and Technology shall meet upon convocation determined by the President of the Republic, who shall preside over each installation session of the proceedings.

§ 1º In the absence of the President of the Republic, this shall appoint a Vice-President, among the members representatives of the Federal Government, who shall exercise the chairmanor of the meeting.

§ 2º The Council shall be constituted of members designated by the President of the Republic and shall have the following composition:

I-eight representatives of the Federal Government;

II-eight representatives of the producers and users of science and technology, and respective alternates, with three-year tenure, admitted a single redriving.

§ 3º The representation of the producers and users of science and technology will be renewed each year, with the partial replacement and its members.

§ 4º The participation in the National Council of Science and Technology will not be remunerated.

§ 5º At the discretion of the President of the Republic, other personalities may be summoned to participate in the meetings of the Council.

§ 6º The Council may constitute, under the coordination of any of its members, sectoral thematic working commissions, temporary, which will be able to include state representatives, employees, producers and users of science and technology and the community science and technology.? (NR)

?Art. 5º-A. For the purposes of the provisions of § 3º of the art. 2º of this Law, the next renewal of the representation of producers and users of science and technology will be made by choosing representatives with the mandates of one, and two and three years, in the form of the regulation.? (NR)

Art. 8º Law No. 8,183, of April 11, 1991, passes the vigour with the following changes:

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§ 3º The National Defense Council will have a Executive Secretariat for the execution of the permanent activities necessary for the exercise of its constitutional competence.? (NR)

?Art. 4º It is up to the Office of Institutional Security of the Presidency of the Republic to carry out the permanent activities necessary for the exercise of the competence of the National Defense Council-CDN.

Single paragraph. For the tract of specific problems of the competence of the National Defence Council, they may be instituted, together with the Office of Institutional Security of the Presidency of the Republic, special groups and commissions, integrated by representatives of organs and entities, belonging or not to the Federal Public Administration.? (NR)

?Art. 6º The bodies and entities of the Federal Administration will carry out studies, issue opinions and provide all the collaboration that the Federal National Defence Council will need, upon request from its Executive Secretariat.? (NR)

Art. 9º The art. 5º of Law No. 8,854 of February 10, 1994, it passes on the invigorating addition of the following paragraph:

?Single paragraph. Is the Executive Power authorized to dispose of the structure, binding and denomination of the posts in commission, trust functions and the units of the Brazilian Space Agency.? (NR)

Art. 10. The art. 7º of Law No. 5,537 of November 21, 1968, with the amendments of the Decree-Law No. 872 of September 15, 1969, it becomes invigorated with the following essay:

?Art. 7º The National Education Development Fund-FNDE will be administered by a Deliberative Council constituted of nine members, as per the provisions of regulation.? (NR)

Art. 11. The arts.6º and 81 of Law No. 6,880 of December 9, 1980, go on to invigorate with the following essay:

?Art. 6º Are equivalent the expressions? in the active?,? of the active?,? in active service?,? in service in active?,? in service?,?,? in activity? or? in military activity?, conferred on the military in performance and office, commission, charge, incumbency or mission, service or military activity or deemed to be of a military nature in the military organizations of the Armed Forces, as well as in the Presidency of the Republic, in the Vice Presidency of the Republic, in the Ministry of Defense and in the remaining bodies when provided for in law, or when incorporated into the Armed Forces.? (NR)

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II-is put at the exclusive disposal of the Ministry of Defense or of the diverse Armed Force of that one belonging, to occupy military office or deemed to be of a military nature;

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Art. 12. As long as it does not have a permanent staffing frame:

I-apply to the civil servants and servicemen in exercise at the Ministry of Defence the prevailing standards for the civil servants and military servants in exercise in the organs of the Presidency of the Republic, in particular those referred to in art. 20 of Law No. 8,216 of August 13, 1991, in § 4º of the art. 93 of Law No. 8,112, of December 11, 1990, and in the arts. 11 and 13 of Law No. 8,460 of September 17, 1992;

II-the servers and employees requisitioned by organ whose assignments have been transferred to the Ministry of National Integration will be able to remain at the disposal of the referred to the Ministry, applying to them the provisions of the single paragraph of the art. 2º of Law No. 9,007 of March 17, 1995;

III-The Ministry of Agrarian Development will be able to request servers from the direct Federal Administration to have exercise in that body, regardless of the function to be exercised.

Single paragraph. Except in the cases provided for in law and until they comply with the conditions set out in this article, the requisitions of servers for the Ministries of Defense and National Integration will be irredeemable and should be promptly met.

Art. 13. It becomes amended for National Antidrug Fund-FUNAD the denomination of the Prevention, Recovery and Combating Fund for Drug Abuse-FUNCAB, established by Law No. 7,560 of December 19, 1986, amended by Law No 8,764 of December 20 of 1993, and ratified by Law No. 9,240 of December 22, 1995, as well as transferred its management of the scope of the Ministry of Justice to the National Antidrug Office of the Office of Institutional Security of the Presidency of the Republic.

Art. 14. It shall be amended to Fund of the Ministry of Defence the denomination of the Joint Chiefs of Staff of the Armed Forces-EMFA Fund, Instituted by Law No. 7,448, of December 20, 1985.

Art. 15. The art.15 of Law No. 5,664 of September 2, 1970, passes on the invigorating addition of the following single paragraph:

?Single paragraph. Applies to the HCPA the regime and impenhorability of its goods, services and rents?. (NR)

Art. 16. The deadline to be referred to art. 27 of Law No. 9,650, of May 27, 1998, is extended to June 30, 2003.

Art. 17. The caput of the art. 3º of Law No. 9,883 of December 7, 1999, passes the vigour with the following essay:

?Art. 3º. It is established the Brazilian Intelligence Agency-ABIN, the organ of the Presidency of the Republic, which, in the position of central organ of the Brazilian System of Intelligence, will have its office plan, execute, coordinate, supervise and control the country intelligence activities, obeyed politics and the superiorly drawn guidelines in the terms of this Act.? (NR)

Art. 18. They are convalidated the acts practiced on the basis of the Provisional Measure No. 1.999-14, of January 13, 2000.

Art. 19. § 1º of the art is revoked. 9º of Law No. 6,634 of May 2, 1979; the art. 13 of Law No. 7,853 of October 24, 1989; the § § 1º, 2º and 5º of the art. 18 of Law No. 7,998 of January 11, 1990; the § 2º of the art. 3º of Law No. 8,036 of May 11, 1990; the inciso I of art. 10 of Law No. 8,167 of January 16 de1991, the arts. 6º, 7º, 63, 64, 65, 66, 77, 84 and 86 of Law No. 8,212, de24 July 1991; the arts. 7º and 8º of Law No. 8,213 of July 24, 1991; the Law No. 8,954 of December 13, 1994; the art. 3º of Law No. 9,257 of January 9, 1996; the § § 3º and 4º of the art. 7º, the arts. 9º, 10, the § § 2º, 3º and 4º of the art. 14, the single paragraph of the art. 18, the arts. 20, 23, 25, 26, 30, 38 and 62 of Law No. 9,649, of May 27, 1998.

Art. 20. This Interim Measure takes effect on the date of its publication.

Brasilia, February 11, 2000; 179º of Independence and 112º of the Republic.

FERNANDO HEHRIQUE CARDOSO

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