DECREE NO. 5,949, OF October 31, 2006.

Approves the Regimental Structure and the Demonstrative Frame of the Cargos in Commission and Gratified Functions of the Ministry of the Farmhouse, and gives other arrangements.

THE PRESIDENT OF THE REPUBLIC, in the use of the assignments that confers you the art. 84, incisos IV and VI, point (? a?, of the Constitution,

DECRETA:

Art. 1st Stay approved the Regimental Structure and the Demonstrstrative Framework of the Cargos in Commission and of the Gratified Functions of the Ministry of Finance in the form of Annexes I and II to this Decree.

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

I-from the Ministry of Finance to the Registry of Management, the Ministry of Planning, Budget and Management, five DAS 102.1; and

II-of the Office of Management, of the Ministry of Planning, Budget and Management, for the Ministry of Finance, a DAS 101.5; four DAS 101.3; nine DAS 101.2; five DAS 101.1; four DAS 102.3; one DAS 102.2.

Art. 3rd The apostilaments arising from the approval of the Regimental Structure of which it treats art. 1st should occur within thirty days, counted from the date of publication of this Decree.

Paragraph single. After the apostilaments provided for in the caput, the Minister of State for the Finance shall publish, in the Official Journal of the Union, within sixty days, counted from the effective date of this Decree, nominal relation of the holders of the posts in committee of the Group-Direction and Superiors Superiors-DAS, referred to in Annex II, indicating, including, the number of vacant posts, their denomination and their respective level.

Art. 4th The internal regiments of the organs of the Ministry of Finance shall be approved by the Minister of State and published in the Official Journal of the Union, within the ninety term days, counted from the date of publication of this Decree.

Art. 5th This Decree enters into vigour on the date of its publication.

Art. 6th Ficam revoked the Decrees in the 5,510, of August 12, 2005, and 5,585, of November 19, 2005.

Brasilia, October 31, 2006; 185th of the Independence and 118th of the Republic.

LUIZ INÁCIO LULA DA SILVA

Guido Mantega

Joao Bernardo de Azevedo Bringel

This text does not replace the one published in the DOU of 1º.11.2006

ANNEX I

STRUCTURE REGIMENTAL OF THE MINISTRY OF THE FARM

CHAPTER I

OF NATURE AND COMPETENCE

Art. 1st The Ministry of Finance, the body of the direct federal administration, has as an area of competence the following subjects:

I-currency, credit, financial institutions, capitalization, popular savings, private insurance and open private providence;

II-politics, administration, surveillance and tax and customs fundraising;

III-financial administration and public accounting;

V-administration of internal and external public debts;

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

VI-prices in general and public and administrated tariffs;

VII-surveillance and control of foreign trade;

X-realization of studies and research for follow-up of the economic conjuncture; and

X-authorization, re-salvaged the competences of the National Monetary Council:

a) of the free distribution of prizes for advertisement title when effectuated by sorteio, valley-toast, contest or asselated operation;

b) of the consortium operations, mutual fund and other forms assorted associatives, which object to the acquisition of goods of any nature;

c) of the sale or promise of sale of goods to retail, upon public offer and with advance, partial or full receipt, of the respective price;

d) of the sale or promise of selling rights, including quotes owned by civil entities, such as hospital, motel, club, hotel, recreation centre or accommodation and organization of services of any kind with or without proration of maintenance expenses, upon public offering and with advance payment of the price;

e) of the sale or promise of sale of land loteed to installments upon draw;

f) of any other modality of early popular savings abstraction, upon promise of contraption in goods, rights or services of any nature; and

g) of the exploration of lotteries, including the sweepstakes and other modalities of lotteries performed by promoter entities of horse racing.

CHAPTER II

OF THE ORGANIZATIONAL STRUCTURE

Art. 2nd The Ministry of Finance has the following Organizational Structure:

I-organs of direct and immediate assistance to the Minister of State:

a) Cabinet; and

( b) Executive Secretariat:

1. Undersecretion for Economic Affairs; and

2. Subsecretion of Planning, Budget and Administration;

II-specific organs singular:

a) Attorney-General of National Finance;

b) Secretariat of the Federal Revenue;

c) Secretary of the National Treasury;

d) Secretariat of Economic Policy;

e) Secretariat of Economic Monitoring;

f) Secretary of International Affairs; and

g) School of Fazendary Administration;

III-collegiated organs:

a) National Monetary Council;

b) National Council of Fazendary Politics;

c) Resource Council of the National Financial System;

d) National Privacy Insurance Council;

e) Board of Resources of the National Private Insurance System, of Open Private and Capitalization Welfare;

f) Board of Control of Financial Activities;

g) Superior Chamber of Tax Resources;

h) 1st, 2nd and 3rd Boards of Contributors;

i) Brazilian Committee of Nomenclature;

j) Exterior Credits Evaluation Committee; and

l) Managerial Coordinating Committee of the Federal Public Financial Institutions;

IV-linked entities:

a) authorities:

1. Central Bank of Brazil;

2. Commission of Securities; and

3. Superintendence of Private Insurance;

b) public companies:

1. House of the Currency of Brazil;

2. Federal Data Processing Service;

3. Federal Economic Box; and

4. Asset Manager Company;

c) mixed economy societies:

1. Bank of Brazil S.A.;

2. IRB-Brazil Reinsurance S.A.;

3. Bank of Amazonia S.A.;

4. Bank of the Northeast of Brazil S.A.;

5. Bank of the State of Piauí S.A.;

6. Bank of the State of Santa Catarina S.A.; and

7. BESC S.A. Real Estate Credit-BAGO.

CHAPTER III

DAS COMPETENCIES OF THE ORGANS

Section I

of the Direct and Immediate Assistance Bodies to the Minister of State

Art. 3rd To the Cabinet competes:

I-attend the Minister of State in his political representation and social, occupy yourself with the public relations and the prepares and dispatch of your personal expedient;

II-follow the progress of the projects of interest of the Ministry, in tramitation in the National Congress;

III-provide for the fulfillment of the consultations and the required requirements formulated by the National Congress;

IV-arrange for the official publication and dissemination of the subjects related to the area of acting of the Ministry; and

V-exercise other assignments that are committed to it by the Minister of State.

Art. 4th To the Executive Secretariat competes:

I-attend to the Minister of State in the supervision and coordination of the activities of the integral Secretaries of the structure of the Ministry and the entities to it linked;

II-coordinate and supervise the organizing activities and administrative modernization, as well as those related to the federal planning and budget systems, financial administration, accounting, administration of information resources and informatics, of human resources, general services and documentation and archives, within the framework of the Ministry and linked entities;

III-assist the Minister of State in the definition of guidelines and in the implementation of the actions of the Ministry's area of competence;

IV-coordinate, within the framework of the Ministry, the studies related to projects of laws, interim measures, decrees and other normative acts; and

V-coordinate, in the framework of the Ministry, the activities related to the ouvidoria.

Single paragraph. The Executive Secretariat exercises, still, the role of the sectoral body of the Civil Personnel Systems of the Federal Administration-SIPEC, of Administration of Information Resources and Informatics-SISP, of General Services-SISG, National Archives- SINAR, of Planning and Federal Budget, of Federal Financial Administration and Federal Accounting, through the Sub-Secretariat of Planning, Budget and Administration.

Art. 5th À Subsecretariat for Economic Affairs competes:

I-follow up and supervise the work on economic affairs within the framework of the Executive Secretariat, establishing guidelines for programming, organization, implementation and evaluation of tasks by it developed; and

II-coordinate, within the framework of the Secretariat-Executive, in articulation with the Social Communication Advisory and the Advice for Parliamentary Affairs of the Ministry, actions and resolutions to the demands coming from the Legislative Power, the judiciary, other spheres of government, the press and organized civil society.

Art. 6th To The Subsecretariat of Planning, Budget and Administration competes:

I-administer, plan, coordinate and supervise the execution of the activities of administrative organization and modernization, as well as those related to the federal planning and budget, financial administration, accounting systems, administration of the information and informatics resources, human resources, general services and documentation and archives, within the Ministry;

II-coordinate and supervise the implementation of the activities of administrative organization and modernization, as well as those related to the systems cited in the inciso I, in the framework of the linked entities of the Ministry;

III-promoting articulation with the responsible bodies by the central coordination of the activities of organization and administrative modernization and the federal systems referred to in the inciso I and to inform and guide the organs of the Ministry and linked entities as to the compliance with administrative standards established;

IV-coordinate the elaboration and consolidation of the plans and programmes of the finalistic activities of the Ministry and linked entities, and submit them to the top decision;

V-examine and manifest on the internal regiments of the organs of the Ministry, as well as of the structures or statutes of the linked entities, except the public companies and mixed-economy societies;

VI-develop the budget execution activities, financial and accounting, within the framework of the Ministry;

VII-carry out of the accounts of the expense payers and too much responsible for public goods and values and of all the one that gives cause to loss, stray or other wrongdoing that results in damage to the erarium; and

VIII-supervise, coordinate, and guide the Regional Administration Managers of the Ministry.

Section II

Of the Singular Specific Organs

Art. 7th To The Attorney General of the National Farm competes:

I-ascertain the liquidity and certainty of the active debt of the Union, tax or of any other nature, enrolling it for collection, friendly or judicial purposes;

II-represent deprivatively the Union, in the execution of its active debt;

III-examine in advance the legality of contracts, concessions, agreements, adjustments or arrangements that matter to the National Finance, including those regarding public debt outside and, where applicable, to promote the respective termination or expiry statement, by administrative or judicial route;

IV-represent the Union in the causes of a fiscal nature, thus understood those concerning Union competence tributes, including infractions regarding tax legislation, compulsory loans, seizure of goods, domestic or foreign, organ decisions of the tax administrative litigation, benefits and tax exemptions, credits and tax stimuli on export, tax liability of transporters and maritime agents, and procedural incidents raised in actions of a fiscal nature;

V-fixing the interpretation of the Constitution, of laws, of treaties and too much normative acts to be uniformly followed in their areas of acting and coordination, when not there is normative guidance from the Union Advocate General;

VI-represent and defend the interests of the National Finance:

a) in contracts, inclusive of concessions, agreements or adjustments of a fiscal or financial nature in which they intervene or are part of one side the Union and, of another, the States, the Federal District, the Municipalities, the authorities, the public companies, the mixed economy societies or entities foreign;

b) in instruments, loan agreements, warranty, contragarantia, financed purchase of goods and financing, contracted in the Country or abroad, in which it is party to or intervenes the Union;

c) next to the Upper House of Tax Resources, the Councils of Contributors, the National Financial System Resources Board, the Board of Resources of the System National Private Insurance, Open Private and Capitalization Insurance, to the Financial Activities Control Board-COAF and in other bodies of collective deliberation;

d) in the acts concerning the acquisition and alienation of real estate of the Union heritage from the Registration Offices of Real estate, requiring the registration, enrollment, transcription or averaging of securities relating to these real estate and, where applicable, manifesting refusal or impossibility to meet the requirement of the Officer, requiring certificates in the interest of the said heritage and, still, by promoting the registration of property of the property of the Union discriminated administratively, owned or occupied by organs of the federal administration and by military units, in the hypotheses provided for in the relevant legislation; e

e) in the constitutive acts and in assemblies of the mixed-economy societies and other entities from whose capital they participate in the National Treasury, and in the acts of underwriting, purchasing, selling, or transferring shares of society;

VII-accept the donations, free of charge, in favor of the Union;

VIII-managing special subaccount of the Special Development Fund and Improvement of Supervisory activities-FUNDAF, of which they treat the Decree-Law no 1,437, of 17 of December 1975, and the Law no 7,711, of December 22, 1988, intended to cater to the Incentive Program to the Union's Active Debt Fundraising;

IX-plan, coordinate, guide, supervise, control and evaluate activities related to material and heritage resources, convents, bidding, contracts and general services, observed the policies, guidelines, norms, and recommendations of the General Services and Documentation Systems and Archives;

X-represent and defend in judgment the Board Director of the PIS-PASEP; Participation Fund;

XI-enroll in Debt Activates the debits arising from contributions, fines and charges to the Service-Time Guarantee Fund-FGTS and promote the respective collection, judicial and extrajudicially; and

XII-plan, coordinate, guide support and perform academic-scientific and cultural activities, in particular, with respect to:

a) à formation of new members of the Attorney General of the National Farm, in the performance of their institutional functions;

b) to the enhancement and technical-professional updating of the members, servers and trainees of the Organ;

c) to the development of projects, courses, seminars, and other modalities of study and exchange of information, and may, for these purposes, celebrate congeniuses with organs of the Administration and public and private entities of teaching and research; and

d) to the creation of conditions aiming at the fulfillment of the provisions of the art. 39, § 2nd, of the Constitution.

§ First in the exercise of the activities foreseen in the inciso XII will be used the physical structure made available by the Fazendary School of Administration.

§ 2nd The Attorney General of the National Finance performs the activities of consultancy and legal advising within the framework of the Ministry and linked entities, governing, in the performance of these activities, by the provisions of the Decree-Law no 147, of 3 of February 1967, and the Supplemental Act no 73, of February 10, 1993.

Art. 8th To the Registry of the Internal Revenue Compete:

I-plan, coordinate, supervise, perform, control and evaluate the federal tax administration activities, in the form of the legislation in force;

II-propose measures of improvement and regulation and the consolidation of federal tax legislation;

III-interpreting and enforcing tax and customs legislation, editing the normative acts and the necessary instructions to your execution;

IV-establish ancillary tax obligations, inclusive of disciplinary delivery of statements;

V-prepare and judge, in the first instance, processes administrative of determination and requirement of Union tax credits, concerning the tributes and contributions by it administered;

VI-follow up the implementation of tax and customs policies and study their effects on the country's economy;

VII-driving, overseeing, directing, coordinating and executing the surveillance, launch, charging services, fundraising, pick-up and control of the tributes and contributions and too much Union revenue, under his administration;

VIII-carry out the prediction, the follow-up, the analysis and control of the revenues under your administration, as well as coordinate and consolidate the predictions of the remaining recipes federal, to subsidize the drafting of the Union's budget proposal;

IX-propose measures intended to compatibilize the values set out in the federal financial programming with the revenue to be raised;

X-estimate and quantify the waiver of administered revenues and assess the effects of the aliquot reductions, tax exemptions and incentives or fiscal stimulus, re-salvaged the competence of other organs that also address these subjects;

XI-promote integration activities, between the fisc and the taxpayer, and of tax education, as well as preparing, orienting and disseminating tax information;

XII-formulate and establish economical information policy-fiscal and implement systematic collection, treatment and dissemination of such information;

XIII-celebrate congeniuses with the organs and entities of the federal administration and entities of public law or private, for exchange of information, rationalization of activities and conducting joint operations;

XIV-managing the Special Development Fund and Improvement of Supervisory activities-FUNDAF, referred to in the Decree-Law no 1,437, of 1975;

XV-participate in the negotiation and implementation of international agreements, treaties, and agreements pertinent to the tax matter, re-salvaged the competences of other organs dealing with such matters;

XVI-driving, overseeing, directing, coordinating and carrying out administration, customs surveillance and control services, including with regard to customs clearance of areas and precincts;

XVII-drive, supervise, guide, coordinate, and execute control of the customs value and transfer prices of imported or exported goods, resourced the competences of the Brazilian Committee of Nomenclature;

XVIII-directing, overseeing, directing, coordinating and performing the activities related to naming, tax classification and origin of goods, including representing the Country in international meetings on the matter;

XIX-participate, observed competence specific to other organs, from the activities of suppression to smuggling, to the dispath and illicit trafficking of narcotics and related drugs, and to money laundering;

XX-administrate, control, evaluate, and normatize the Integrated Foreign Trade System-SISCOMEX, reaped the competences of other bodies;

XXI-articulate with international entities and bodies and foreign nationals with acting in the economic field-tax, for conducting studies, technical conferences, congresses and similar events; and

XXII-orient, supervise, and coordinate the activities of production and dissemination of strategic information in the area of its competence, aimed at risk management or to the use by participating bodies and entities of joint operations, aiming at the prevention and combating of the frauds and delightful practices within the federal and customs tax administration.

Art. 9th To the National Treasury Board Secretariat, the central body of Federal Financial Administration and Federal Accounting Systems, competes:

I-draw up the monthly and annual financial programming of the National Treasury, manage the National Treasury Single Account and subsidize the formulation of the financing policy of the public expenditure;

II-ensure the financial balance of the National Treasury;

III-administer the financial and securities hapses of the National Treasury;

IV-keep track of the commitments that onset, directly or indirectly, the Union together with entities or to organisms international;

V-administering the public and contractual public debts, internal and outside, of direct or indirect responsibility of the National Treasury;

VI-managing the funds and the official programs that are under the responsibility of the National Treasury, evaluating and tracking the possible fiscal risks;

VII-edit standards on financial programming and budgetary and financial implementation, as well as promote the monitoring, systematization and standardization of the implementation of the public expenditure;

VIII-implement the actions necessary for the regularization of obligations financial from the Union, inclusive of those assumed to be due to law;

IX-establish accounting standards and procedures for the proper record of the acts and facts of the budgetary, financial and heritage management of the organs and entities of the federal administration, promoting the monitoring, systematization and standardization of execution accounting;

X-maintain and enhance the Accounts Plan and the Contabeis Procedures Manual of the Federal administration;

XI-institute, maintain, and enhance systems of accounting records for the acts and facts pertaining to budgetary, financial and heritage management;

XII- institute, maintain, and enhance information systems that allow to produce managerial information necessary for decision making and ministerial supervision;

XIII-setting standards and procedures for drawing up processes of spending payers' accounts and too many responsible for public goods and values and at all one that gives cause to loss, stray or other wrongdoing that results in damage to the erarium, and promote the corresponding accounting records of the agents ' accountability;

XIV-elaborating the accounting statements and reports intended to compose the annual accountability of the President of the Republic;

XV-edit general standards for consolidation of national public accounts;

XVI-consolidate national public accounts by aggregation of the data from the balance sheets of the Union, the States, the Federal District and the Municipalities;

XVII-promoting integration with the remaining Powers of the Union and of the remaining spheres of government in accounting matters concerning budgetary, financial and heritage execution;

XVIII-administrate, control, evaluate, and normatize the Integrated Financial Administration System of the Federal Government-SIAFI;

XIX-elaboration and release, within the framework of its competence, fiscal statistics, demonstratives and reports, in service to legal devices and agreements, treaties and agreements concluded by the Union with international bodies or entities;

XX-check the fulfilment of the limits and conditions regarding the realization of credit operations of the states, of the Federal District and of the Municipalities, comprising the respective direct administrations, funds, authorities, foundations and dependent state-owned enterprises;

XXI-divulge, monthly, the relationship of the people who have outpaced the limits of consolidated and furnished debts, under the current legislation;

XXII-advise and technically subsidize the Minister of State in his / her participation in instances deliberatory on issues related to public investments, including those carried out under the modality of direct investment, public-private partnership and traditional concession, in particular in the processes regarding the selection steps, implementation, monitoring and evaluation of projects;

XXIII-check the suitability of the public-private partnership projects to the tax requirements set out in Law no 11,079, December 30, 2004, and the Supplementary Act no 101, of May 4, 2000, as well as in the remaining normative correports;

XXIV-operationalize and follow up with the management of Public-Private Partnerships Guarantee Fund-FGP, with views to to ensure the valorisation of the public resources there deposited, and to draw up prior and reasoned opinion as to the feasibility of granting guarantees and in their form, regarding the risks to the National Treasury, and to compliance with the limit of which treats the art. 22 of the Law no 11,079, 2004, for the contracting of public-private partnership, depending on the inciso II of § 3rd art. 14 of the cited Law;

XXV-structuring and articulating the federal programming system financial, involving the sectoral financial programming sectoral bodies, with the aim of supporting the efficient execution of public expenditure in general, and of the investment projects in particular;

XXVI-structuring and participating in innovative experiences associated with public spending, with the aim of viabilizing the improvement of the sustainability conditions of public accounts;

XXVII-promote evaluation periodical of fiscal statistics and indicators, aiming to appropriate the Brazilian tax statistics system to international best practices and local requirements;

XXVIII-setting standards and procedures on aspects of the management of public investments, including those carried out under the modality of public-private partnership, in what tange to financial programming, budgetary and financial implementation, accounting and tax registration, calculation and monitoring of borrowing limits, verification of payment capacity, the occurrence of contingent commitments; the system of managerial information, the administration of havers and obligations under the responsibility of the National Treasury, as well as the remaining competencies assigned institutionally to the Secretary of the National Treasury.

§ 1st As far as public spending is concerned, inclusive aspects associated with budget programming, monitoring and evaluation, as mentioned in the incisies VII, XII, XXIV, XXV, XXVI and XXVII, the National Treasury Board Secretariat is expected to carry out its assignments in close collaboration with the Ministry of the Planning, Budget and Management, aiming to suppress eventual gaps and enhance the usual procedures in that area.

§ 2nd The products generated due to the performance of the National Treasury Board's performance in the area of public spending, in particular with regard to monitoring activities and assessment, should be shared with the Ministry of Planning, Budget and Management, so as to allow its full integration with the Federal Planning and Budget System.

Art. 10. To the Bureau of Economic Policy competes:

I-advise the Minister of State in the formulation, monitoring and coordination of economic policy, inclusive of sectoral and regional;

II-propose alternatives of driving fiscal policy in the short term and set guidelines of this policy for medium and long term;

III-evaluate and draw up proposals for amending tax and budget legislation and their impacts on the economics;

IV-draw up tax projections and coordinate the consolidation process of the estimates and programming of the public sector funding needs;

V-define the set of parameters used in the drafting of the General Budget of the Union;

VI-evaluate and draw up policy proposals regarding the productive sector, including foreign exchange, commercial, tariff and credit policies;

VII-follow and evaluate the economic indicators of the Country, elaborating reports on the evolution of the economy;

VIII-indicate global and sectoral priorities in the annual, multi-annual plans, programs and projects of interest national;

IX-promote studies and evaluate measures for the development of the sectors of supplemental pension, insurance and capitalization;

X-evaluate and propose measures for the development of the Brazilian capital market;

XI-propose alternatives and evaluate the public policies for the housing system, including the market and social interest segments, aiming at the enhancement of regulatory and operational mechanisms;

XII-contribute to the outreach, expansion and democratization of credit channels within the System National Financial;

XIII-propose, evaluate and follow up measures, within the Ministry of the Farmland, relevant to agricultural policy;

XIV-appreciate, in its economic aspects, legislation or regulatory projects, issuing technical opinions on the pertinent subjects;

XV-advising the Minister of State in the relationship policy with international finance and trade bodies, coordinating it with the macroeconomic priorities set out in the multiannual plan; and

XVI-participate in the Technical Commission of Currency and the Credit and advise the Minister of State at the National Monetary Council.

Art. 11. The Office of Economic Monitoring competes:

I-delineate, coordinate and execute the actions of the Ministry, in regard to the management of markets regulation, competition and economic order advocacy policies, so as to promote efficiency, consumer welfare and economic development;

II-ensuring the defense of the economic order, in articulation with the other government bodies tasked with ensuring the competition advocacy:

a) acting in the control of market structures, issuing opinions economic relative to acts of concentration in the context of the Law no 8,884, of June 11, 1994;

b) proceeding to economic analyses of competition-limiting practices or pipelines, instructing procedures in the context of the Law no 8,884, de1994; and

c) realizing, in the face of hints of economic order infraction, investigations of acts or limiter pipelines of the competition in the context of the Act No 9,021 of March 30, 1995, and of the Law no 10,149, of December 21, 2000;

III-monitoring the deployment of the models of regulation and management developed by regulatory agencies, sectoral ministries and the other related bodies, opining, the their judgement or when provoked, among other aspects, about:

a) of the readjustments and the reviews of public services and public price fees;

b) of the bidding processes involving the privatization of companies belonging to the Union, with the aim of guaranteeing maximum conditions of competition, by analyzing the rules of setting the tariffs of public services and initial public prices, as well as the parametric formulas of readjustments and the conditioners that affect the review processes; and

c) of the evolution of the markets, especially in the case of public services subject to the processes of privatization and administrative decentralization, to recommend the adoption of measures that stimulate competition and economic efficiency in the production of the goods and the provision of the services;

IV-authorize and scrutinize, except hypothesis of attribution of competence to another organ or entity, the activities of free distribution of prizes, to title of advertisement, upon draw, gift-free, tender or operation resembling popular savings, pursuant to the Act No 5,768, 20 of December 1971;

V-authorize, follow up, monitor, and scrutinize the activities of which treat the Decrees-Laws no 6,259, of February 10, 1944, and no 204, of February 27, 1967;

VI-authorize and scrutinize the activities of which it treats art. 14 of the Law no 7,291, of December 19, 1984;

VII-follow up on implementation, for the agricultural and agroindustrial sectors, regulatory, regulatory milestones and public policy instruments aimed at credit, supply, marketing, production and consumption;

VIII-promoting the economic development and proper functioning of the market, in the agricultural, industrial sectors, of trade and services and of infrastructure:

a) accompanying and analyzing the evolution of market variables relative to products or the product group;

b) accompanying and analyzing the execution of the national policy of import and export tariffs, interacting with bodies involved with foreign trade policy;

c) adopting, when cableable, normative measures on conditions of competition to ensure free competition in the production, marketing and distribution of goods and services;

d) compatibilizing internal defence and defence practices commercial with international practices, aiming at economic integration and the consolidation of regional economic blocs; and

e) evaluating and demonstrating about the legal acts and instruments that affect the conditions of competition and efficiency in the provision of regulated and free services marketing, production and distribution of goods and services.

IX-formulate representation in the face of the competent body, so that this, wanting, adopts the appropriate legal measures, where it is identified illegal and / or unconstitutional standard that has anti-competitive character;

X-develop the tools necessary for the execution of the assignments mentioned in the incisos I to VIII of this article; e

XI-promoting articulation with public bodies, private sector and entities nongovernmental also involved in the assignments mentioned in the incisos I to VIII of this article.

Art. 12. The Office of International Affairs competes:

I-follow up on economic negotiations and financial ones with foreign or international governments and entities;

II-analyze the policies of international financial bodies, as well as the conjuncture of the international economy and strategic economies for Brazil;

III-analyze the financial policies of international institutions and follow up initiatives in monetary and financial cooperation;

IV-follow themes related to Brazilian external indebtedness along to official and private creditors;

V-participate, within the framework of the Exports Financing and Guarantee Committee-COFIG, das decisions regarding the granting of financial assistance to exports, with proceeds from the Export Financing Program-PROEX, and of the provision of Union warranty, amstop by the Export Guarantee Fund-FGE;

VI-advise the Presidency and exercise the Executive Secretariat of the COFIG;

VII-authorize the guarantee of the coverage of trade risks and the political and extraordinary risks assumed by the Union, by virtue of the Export Credit Insurance-SCE, pursuant to the Act no 6,704, of October 26, 1979, and of the regulations in force;

VIII-exercise assignments concerning the SCE, in addition to that mentioned in the previous inciso, including the contracting of institution enabled to operate the SCE, for execution of all the services to it related, including analysis, monitoring, management of the warranty and recovery of claims claims;

IX-adopt, within its competence, all administrative measures necessary for the execution of the activities related to SCE;

X-adopt the necessary arrangements, as mandatary of the Union, for judicial and extrajudicial collection, in the exterior, of the Union credits, arising from compensation paid, within the scope of the SCE, with proceeds from the Export Guarantee Fund-FGE;

XI-hire, at the discretion of the Registry, institution empowered to operate the SCE or lawyer, in the Country or abroad, for the practice of all the acts necessary for the execution of the disposed of the inciso X;

XII-participate, within the framework of the Credits Evaluation Committee to the Exterior-COMACE, of the decisions regarding the planning and monitoring of the policy of assessment, negotiation and recovery of Brazilian credits abroad;

XIII-participate, within the framework of COMACE, of the negotiations of Brazilian credits abroad, including those carried out by the Paris Club;

XIV-advise the Presidency and exercise the Secretariat-Executive Office of the COMACE;

XV-participate, within the framework of the Commission on External Financing-COFIEX, of the decisions concerning the authorization of the preparation of projects or public sector programs with financial nature support from external sources;

XVI-follow and coordinate, within the framework of the Ministry, the necessary actions to the process of economic integration of Brazil in the Southern Common Market-MERCOSUR, including the participation in the coordination of macroeconomic policies;

XVII-participate in the negotiations trade relating to MERCOSUR and too much economic blocks and pronounce on the desirability of Brazil's participation in international agreements or arrangements related to foreign trade;

XVIII-accompany and coordinate, within the framework of the Ministry, the actions necessary for the participation of Brazil in the Organization World Trade-WTO and other international trade bodies in foreign trade, including services, investments and government purchases;

XIX-participate, within the framework of the WTO and other international bodies, of negotiations on foreign trade, including services, investments and purchases government;

XX-follow up on the implementation of the national import tariff policy and of export, in conjunction with the remaining bodies in charge of the elaboration of the foreign trade policy;

XXI-accompany and coordinate, within the framework of the Ministry, the policies and actions of the Brazilian Government in the areas of safeguards and anti-dumping and countervailing duties; and

XXII-participate in negotiations on safeguards and anti-dumping and countervailing duties, in the scope of the trade agreements, the WTO and other international bodies.

Art. 13. The Fazendary School of Administration competes:

I-planning, promoting and intensifying systematic, progressive, and tailored training programs to the needs of the Ministry in its various areas;

II-promoting the formation and technical-professional enhancement of the Ministry's servers;

III-systematization, planning, overseeing, directing and control of recruitment and personnel selection for fulfillment of Ministry posts;

IV-plan and promote basic and applied research, well thus to develop and maintain technical cooperation programmes with national and international bodies on the matter of interest of the Ministry;

V-plan non-integrated courses in the normal curriculum of the School and perform projects and activities of recruitment, selection and training that come to be convenienced with organs and entities of the direct and indirect public administration of the Union, the states, the Federal District and the Municipalities, and with national and international bodies; and

VI-administering the Special Training and Development Fund, of an accounting nature, of which treats the Decree No 73,115, of November 8, 1973.

Section III

From the Collegiated Bodies

Art. 14. The National Monetary Council competes to exercise the assignments of which it treats the Law no 4,595, of December 31, 1964, and supervenient special legislation.

Art. 15. To the National Council of Fazendary Politics competes:

I-promote the celebration of arrangements, for the purpose of granting or revocation of incentives and tax benefits of the tax of which it treats the inciso II of the art. 155 of the Constitution, in accordance with that provided for in § 2nd, inciso XII, point (g? g) of the same article and in the Supplementary Act no 24, of January 7, 1975:

II-promote the celebration of acts aiming at the exercise of the prerogatives provided for in the arts. 102 and 199 of the Law no 5,172, of October 25, 1966 (National Tax Code), as also on other matters of interest of States and the Federal District;

III-suggest measures with views to the simplification and harmonization of legal requirements;

IV-promoting the management of the National Integrated Economic Information System-SINIEF, for collection, elaboration and distribution of basic data essential to the formation of econo-fiscal policies and the permanent enhancement of tax administrations;

V-promoting studies with views to the improvement of the Tax Administration and the National Tax System as a mechanism of economic and social development, in the aspects of inter-relation of federal and state taxation; and

VI-collaborating with the Monetary Council National in the setting of the Internal and External Public Debt Policy of the States and the Federal District, for compliance with the relevant legislation, and in the guidance of state public financial institutions, propitiating their highest efficiency as basic support of the state Governments.

Art. 16. To the National Financial System Resource Council it is up to exercise the competences set out in the art. 2nd of the Decree no 1,935, of June 20, 1996, with the wording given by the Decree No 2,277, of July 17, 1997.

Art. 17. The National Private Insurance Council is to exercise the powers set out in the Decree-Law no 73 of November 21, 1966, regulated by the Decree no 60,459, of March 13, 1967.

Art. 18. To the Board of Resources of the National Private Insurance System, Open Private Welfare and Capitalization is to exercise the competencies set out in the Decree no 2,824, of October 27, 1998.

Art. 19. The competencies of the Financial Activities Control Board are those set out in the art. 14 of the Law no 9,613, of March 3, 1998, regulated by the Decree no 2,799, of October 8, 1998.

Art. 20. To the Superior Chamber of Tax Resources competes to judge:

I-special interpost appeal against:

a) non-unanimous decision of the Board of Council of Contributors, when contrary to the law or evidence of proof; and

b) decision that gives the tax law divergent interpretation than has given you another Chamber of Council of Contributors or the Superior Chamber of Tax Resources itself; and

II-voluntary interposed decision-making of the Chambers of the Boards of Contributors in the trial of an op-ed appeal.

Art. 21. At the 1st, 2nd and 3rd Boards of Contributors, observed their competence and within the limits of allege set by the Minister of State, it is incumbent to judge offending resources and first-instance decision-making volunteers on the application of the legislation referring to tributes, including additional, and compulsory loans and contributions administered by the Federal Revenue Office.

Art. 22. The Brazilian Nomenclature Committee competes:

I-maintain the Brazilian Nomenclature of Permanently updated goods;

II-propose to the organs interested in the application of the Brazilian Nomenclature of Goods measures related to the upgrading, improvement and harmonization of the developments of their positions, in order to adjust them to their statistical or fiscal control purposes;

III-spreading the knowledge of the Brazilian Nomenclature of Goods, including upon publication of its index, and propose the necessary measures to their uniform application;

IV-promote the dissemination of the Explanatory Notes to the Customs Nomenclature of Brussels and recommend standards, criteria or supplementary notes of interpretation;

V-approve, for the purpose of interpretation and scope of the Brazilian Nomenclature of Goods, the amendments made to the Customs Nomenclature of Brussels;

VI-setting criteria and classification standards for uniform application of the Nomenclature Brazilian of Goods, on their own initiative or by solicitation of organs and entities of the public administration entrusted with the application of the Nomenclature, as supplementary instructions approved by the Committee; and

VII-rendering technical assistance to the organs directly interested in the application of the Brazilian Nomenclature of Goods.

Art. 23. The Foreign Credits Evaluation Committee is to exercise the competencies set out in the Decree no 2,297, of August 11, 1997.

Art. 24. To the Managerial Coordination Committee of the Federal Public Financial Institutions it is up to exercise the competencies set out in the Decree of November 30, 1993, which creates the aforementioned Committee.

CHAPTER IV

DAS ATTRIBUTIONS OF THE LEADERS

Section I

Do Executive Secretary

Art. 25. The Executive Secretary is incumbent on:

I-coordinate, consolidate and submit to the Minister of State the Ministry's overall action plan;

II-supervise and evaluate the execution of the projects and activities of the Ministry;

III-supervise and coordinate the articulation of the organs of the Ministry with the central bodies of the systems affections to the area of competence of the Secretariat-Executive; and

IV-exercise other assignments that are committed to it by the Minister of State.

Section II

Do Attorney General of the National Farm

Art. 26. To the Attorney General of the National Farm it is incumbent to direct, guide, supervise, coordinate and scrutinize the activities of the units that are subordinate to him, ministering to them instructions and expediting normative acts and work orders, in the form of the Decree-Law No. 147, of February 3, 1967, and of the Supplemental Law no 73, of 1993.

Paragraph single. The Attorney General of the National Farm will provide direct and immediate assistance to the Minister of State for Finance.

Section III

Do Secretary of the Registry of the Federal Revenue Office

Art. 27. The Secretary of the Federal Revenue Officer is to direct, guide, supervise, coordinate and scrutinize the activities of the units that are subordinate to him, to exact normative acts, administrative of generic character and to exercise other assignments that are committed in internal regiment.

Section IV

Dos Secretaries

Art. 28. To the Secretaries it is incumbent on planning, directing, coordinating, directing the implementation, monitoring and evaluating the activities of the units that integrate their respective secretaries and exercise other assignments that are committed to them in internal regiment.

Section V

Do Ouvidor-General

Art. 29. The Ouver-General is incumbent on monitoring the progress and solution of the clients ' pleats, within the Ministry.

Section VI

Dos too many Leaders

Art. 30. To the Chief of Staff of the Minister of State, the Undersecretaries, the Director General of the Graduate School of Administration, the Directors and the remaining leaders it is incumbent on planning, directing, coordinating and directing the implementation, monitoring and evaluating the activities of their respective units and exercise other assignments that are committed to them, in their respective areas of competence.

CHAPTER V

DAS GENERAL PROVISIONS

Art. 31. The internal regiments will define the detailing of the integral bodies of the Regimental Structure, the competences of the respective units, the assignments of their leaders, the decentralization of services and the areas of jurisdiction of the organs decentralized.

ANNEX II

a) DEMONSTRATIVE FRAME OF THE POSTS IN COMMITTEE AND OF THE GRATIFIED FUNCTIONS OF THE MINISTRY OF THE FARM:

UNITY	CARGO/ FUNTION No	CARGO/FUNCTION DENOMINATION	NE/ DAS/ FG
	7	Special Assessor	102.5
	1	Special Assessor of Internal control	102.5
	3	Assessor	102.4
	1	Assessor Technician	102.3
CABINET	1	Head of Enclosure	101.5
Technical advisor and Administrative	1	Head of Assessoring	101.4
Coordination	3	Coordinator	101.3
Division	2	Boss	101.2
Service	5	Boss	101.1
	4	Assistant	102.2
	25	Assistant Technician	102.1
	14		FG-1
	4		FG-3
Assessments for Issues Parliamentarians	1	Head of Assessoring	101.4
Coordination	2	Coordinator	101.3
Communication Assessments Social	1	Head of Assessoring	101.4
Coordination	2	Coordinator	101.3
Executive SECRETARIA-EXECUTIVE	1	Executive Secretary	NE
	1	Executive Secretary Adjunct	101.6
	3	Program Director	101.5
	3	Assessor	102.4
Cabinet	1	Head	101.4
Coordination	2	Coordinator	101.3
Division	4	Boss	101.2
Service	4	Boss	101.1
Ouvidoria-General	1	Ouvidor-General	101.4
	1	Technical Assessor	102.3
	1	Assistant	102.2
SUB-SECRETARIA FOR ECONOMIC SUBJECTS	1	Undersecretary	101.5
	8	Assessor	102.4
	1	Technical Assessor	102.3
	3	Assistant	102.2
	12	Assistant Technician	102.1
	12		FG-1
	1		FG-3
SUBSECRETARIA DE SCHEDULE,
BUDGET AND ADMINISTRATION	1	Undersecretary	101.5
	1	Deputy Under-Secretary-General	101.4
	1	Technical Assessor	102.3
	1	Assistant	102.2
	1	Technical Assistant	102.1
	38		FG-1
	34		FG-3
Corregnal	1	Corregedor	101.3
Division	1	Head	101.2
Service	1	Head	101.1
General Planning and Organizational Projects	1	Coordinator-General	101.4
Coordination	2	Coordinator	101.3
	2	Assistant	102.2
	3	Technical Assistant	102.1
Coordinating-General Budget, Finance and Accounting Analysis	1	Coordinator-General	101.4
Coordination	3	Coordinator	101.3
Division	5	Boss	101.2
Service	2	Boss	101.1
Coordinator-General Resource Humans	1	Coordinator-General	101.4
Coordination	3	Coordinator	101.3
Division	4	Boss	101.2
Service	6	Boss	101.1
Coordination-General Technology of the Information	1	Coordinator-General	101.4
Coordination	1	Coordinator	101.3
Division	1	Boss	101.2
Service	1	Boss	101.1
Coordinator-General Resource Logistics	1	Coordinator-General	101.4
Coordination	4	Coordinator	101.3
Division	5	Boss	101.2
Service	5	Boss	101.1
Regional Generences of Administration of the Ministry of Finance in the states
a) from RJ	1	Regional Manager	101.4
	3	Assistant	102.2
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