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Decree No. 5678, January 18 2006

Original Language Title: Decreto nº 5.678, de 18 de Janeiro de 2006

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DECREE NO. 5,678, OF January 18, 2006.

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

THE PRESIDENT OF THE REPUBLIC, in the use of the assignments that confers it on art. 84, incisos IV and VI, paragraph "a" of the Constitution,

DECRETA:

Art. 1º Ficam approved a Regimental Structure and the Demonstrative Framework of the Cargos in Commission and Gratified Functions of the Ministry of Health, in the form of the Annexes I and II to this Decree.

Art. 2º On the grounds of the provisions of the art. 1st, stay remanded, in the form of Annex III to this Decree, the following posts in Commission of the Group-Direction and Superiors Superiors-DAS and Gratified Functions-FG:

I-from the Ministry of Health to the Registry of Management, the Ministry of Planning, Budget and Management: two of the 102.3; eleven DAS 102.2; and twenty-three DAS 102.1; and

II-of the Registry of Management, of the Ministry of Planning, Budget and Management for the Ministry of Health: a DAS 101.5; seven DAS 101.4; eight DAS 101.3; eleven DAS 101.2; twenty-seven DAS 101.1; and twenty-six FG-1.

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

Single paragraph. After the apostilaments provided for in the caput, the Minister of State for Health shall publish, in the Official Journal of the Union, within thirty days, counted from the date of publication of this Decree, the nominal relationship 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 positions, their denomination and their respective level.

Art. 4º The internal regiments of the Ministry of Health's organs will be approved by the Minister of State and published in the Official Journal of the Union, within ninety days, counted from the date of publication of this Decree.

Art. 5º This Decree comes into effect on the date of its publication.

Art. 6º Ficam revoked the Decrees in the 4,726, of June 9, 2003, and 4,907, of December 3, 2003.

Brasilia, January 18, 2006; 185th of the Independence and 118th of the Republic.

LUIZ INACIO LULA DA SILVA

Saraiva Felipe

Paulo Bernardo Silva

ANNEX I

REGIMENTAL STRUCTURE OF THE MINISTRY OF HEALTH

CHAPTER I

OF THE NATURE AND COMPETENCE

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

I-national health policy;

II-coordination and surveillance of the Single Health System-SUS;

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

IV-health information;

V-insuming critical for health;

VI-preventive action in general, surveillance and sanitary control of borders and seaports, fluvial and air;

VII-health surveillance, especially as to drugs, medicines and food; and

VIII-scientific research and technology in the area of health.

CHAPTER II

FROM THE ORGANIZATIONAL STRUCTURE

Art. 2nd The Ministry of Health has the following organizational structure:

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

a) Cabinet;

b) Executive Secretariat:

1. Subsecretive of Administrative Affairs;

2. Schedule Subsecretariat and Budget;

3. Department of Informatics of SUS-DATASUS;

4. Director-Executive Director of the National Health Fund;

5. Department of Support for Decentralization; and

6. Decentralized Units: State Cores;

c) National Department of Audit of SUS;

d) Legal Consultancy;

II-singular specific organs:

a) Registry of Attention to Health:

1. Department of Basic Attention;

2. Department of Attention Specialized;

3. Department of Strategic Programmatic Actions;

4. Department of Regulation, Assessment and Control of Systems;

5. Department of Hospitalar Management in the State of Rio de Janeiro; and

6. National Cancer Institute;

b) The Office of the Management of Labour and the Education in Health:

1. Department of Management of Education in Health; and

2. Department of Management and the Regulation of Work in Health;

c) Office of Science, Technology and Insumos Strategic:

1. Department of Pharmaceutical Assistance and Strategic Insumos;

2. Department of Science and Technology; and

3. Department of Health Economics;

d) Secretary of Participatory Management:

1. Department of Articulation and Monitoring of Sanitary Reform; and

2. Ouvidoria-General's Department of SUS;

e) Registry of Surveillance in Health:

1. Department of Epidemiological Surveillance; and

2. Department of Analysis of Health situation;

III-collegiated bodies:

a) National Board of Health; and

b) Supplemental Health Board;

IV-linked entities:

a) authorities:

1. National Health Surveillance Agency; and

2. National Health Agency Supplementary;

b) public foundations:

1. National Foundation of Health; and

2. Oswaldo Cruz Foundation;

c) mixed-economy societies:

1. Hospital Our Lady of Conception S.A.;

2. Femmina S.A. Hospital; and

3. Cristo Redentor S.A. hospital

Single paragraph. The National Institute of Cancer, an integral unit of the Registry of Attention to Health, is bound, technically and administratively, to the Minister of State for Health.

CHAPTER III

DAS COMPETENCIES OF THE ORGANS

Section I

Dos Direct and Immediate Assistance bodies to the Minister of State

Art. 3rd Ao Cabinet competes:

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

II-keep track of the progress of the Ministry's interest projects in tramway in the National Congress;

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

IV-provide for the official publication and disclosure of the subjects related to the acting area of the Ministry;

V-exercise the communication activities social as well as of international relations related to cooperation in health, of interest of the Ministry; and

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

Art. 4th To the Secretariat-Executive competes:

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

II-coordinate and support the activities of organization and modernization administrative, as well as those related to the federal planning and budget systems, accounting, financial administration, administration of information and informatics resources, of human resources and general services, in the scope of the Ministry;

III-coordinate and support the activities related to the internal management systems and systems of information concerning the finalistic activities of SUS;

IV-coordinate and support the activities of the National Health Fund;

V-coordinate and support the definition of guidelines of the national health information system, integrated across national territory, covering issues epidemiological and provision of services;

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

VII-advising the direction of the Ministry's organs in formulating collaborative strategies with international financial bodies;

VIII-coordinate the elaboration and execution of programs and projects in areas and themes of comprehensiveness national;

IX-set goals, follow up and evaluate the performance of the programs and projects;

X-propose agreements and arrangements with the states, District Federal and Municipalities for the decentralized execution of programs and special projects in the framework of SUS; and

XI-coordinate the decentralization actions in SUS.

Paragraph single. 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, of Planning and of Federal budget, Federal Financial Administration and Federal Accounting Office, through the Subsecretaries of Administrative and Planning Affairs and Budget to it subordinates.

Art. 5th À Subsecretariat of Administrative Affairs competes:

I-plan, coordinate and supervise, in the framework of the Ministry, the execution of the related activities to the Federal Human Resources and General Services Systems, as well as the activities of organization and administrative modernization;

II-promote the articulation with the central bodies of the federal systems, referred to in the inciso I, and inform and guide the Ministry's bodies as to compliance of the established administrative standards;

III-manage contracts and processes licitatories for hiring and procuring goods and services;

IV-plan, coordinate and supervise the implementation of the activities of documentation, information, archive, library, editorial process and the Cultural Centre for Health, within the Ministry; and

V-promote the elaboration and consolidate plans and programs of the activities of your area of competence and submit them to the top decision.

Art. 6th À Subsecretariat of Planning and Budget competes:

I-plan, coordinate, and supervise the execution of the activities related to the Federal Planning, Budget, Financial Administration, and Accounting Systems within the Ministry;

II-promote the articulation with the central organ of the federal system, referred to in the inciso I, and inform and guide the Ministry's bodies as to compliance with the established standards;

III-coordinate the elaboration and consolidation of the plans and programs of the Ministry's finalistic activities and submit them to the top decision; and

IV-follow up and promote the evaluation of projects and activities.

Art. 7th To the Department of Informatics of SUS-DATASUS competes:

I-fomenting, regulating and evaluating SUS informatization actions, directed towards the maintenance and development of the information system in health and the internal Ministry management systems;

II-developing, researching and incorporate informatics technologies enabling the implementation of systems and the dissemination of information necessary to health actions, in line with the guidelines of the National Health Policy;

III-set standards, guidelines, standards, and procedures for and hiring of goods and services from informatics within the framework of the Ministry's bodies and entities;

IV-set standards for the capturing and transfer of information in health, aiming at the operational integration of the databases and systems developed and deployed within SUS;

V-maintain the acquis of the databases necessary to the health information system and systems internal institutional management;

VI-ensuring SUS managers and bodies congeners access to the computer services and databases, maintained by the Ministry;

VII-define technical cooperation programs with research and teaching entities for prospecting and transfer of technology and informatics methodologies in healthcare, under the coordination of the Secretary-General; and

VIII-supporting States, Municipalities and the Federal District, in the informatization of the activities of SUS.

Art. 8th À Executive Director of the National Health Fund competes:

I-plan, coordinate and control the budget, financial, and accounting activities of the National Health Fund, including those performed by decentralized units;

II-promote the technical cooperation activities in the budgetary and financial areas to subsidize the formulation and implementation of health policies;

III-establish norms and criteria for the management of the fundraising sources and the application of budget and financial resources;

IV-plan, coordinate and overseeing the funding activities of programs and projects;

V- follow up and evaluate the implementation of funded programs and projects with resources from the National Health Fund;

VI-plan, coordinate and supervise the activities of congeniums, agreements, adjustments and similar under the responsibility of the Ministry, as well as promoting the monitoring of the application of the resources transferred to SUS; and

VII-planning, coordinating and overseeing the activities of accountability and special account taking of SUS resources allocated to the National Health Fund.

Art. 9th To the Department of Support Decentralization competes:

I-articulate the organs of the Ministry in the process of evaluating policies in the framework of SUS;

II-subsidize the processes of elaboration, implantation and implementation of norms, instruments and methods necessary for the strengthening of the SUS management model, at the three levels of government;

III-promote, articulate and integrate the activities and actions of technical cooperation to states, Municipalities and the Federal District, aiming to strengthen the decentralized management of SUS;

IV-formulate and propose the adoption of guidelines needed for the strengthening of state systems and municipal health;

V-plan, coordinate and articulate the process of negotiation and contractualization, aiming for the strengthening of the pacing instances in the three levels of SUS management;

VI-promoting the articulation and integration of actions between the organs and units of the Ministry and the state and municipal managers of SUS; and

VII-participate in the negotiation process and the definition of criteria for the allocation of physical resources and financial, in the three spheres of management of SUS.

Art. 10. The State Cores, through their organizational units, compete to develop technical-administrative and logistical support activities, as well as practise the remaining acts necessary to the performance of the Ministry's bodies.

Art. 11. To the National Department of Audit of the SUS compete:

I-audit the regularity of technical-scientific, accounting, financial and patrimonial procedures practiced by physical and legal persons within SUS;

II-check the suitability, resolubility and quality of health procedures and services made available to the population;

III-establish guidelines, norms and procedures for the systematization and standardization of the actions of audit under SUS;

IV-promoting development, interaction, and integration of the actions and audit procedures between the three levels of SUS management;

V-promote, in its area of acting, technical cooperation with federal, state and municipal bodies and entities, with views to the integration of the actions of the organs that make up the National System of Auditing-SNA with the integral organs of internal and external control systems;

VI-issuing opinion conclusive and managerial reports for:

a) instruct re-grounding processes to the National Health Fund of established values in the audit actions; and

b) informing the top authority about the results obtained through the audit activities developed by the integral SNA bodies; and

VII-orient, coordinate and supervise, technically and administratively, the execution of the audit activities carried out by the audit organizational units of the State Núcleos.

Art. 12. To Legal Consulting, the sectoral body of Advocate-General of the Union, compete:

I -to advise the Minister of State on matters of a legal nature;

II-exercise the coordination of the legal activities of the Ministry and the linked entities;

III-fix the interpretation of the Constitution, laws, treaties, and the remaining normative acts to be uniformly followed in their area of acting and coordination, when there is no normative orientation of the Union Advocate General;

IV-draw up studies and prepare information by request of the Minister of State;

V-assist the Minister of State in the internal control of the administrative legality, of the acts to be by him practiced or already effective, and of those arising from organs or entities under his legal coordination; and

VI-examine, preview, and conclusively, within the Ministry's scope:

a) the bidding edital texts, as well as those of the respective congenneric contracts or instruments, to be published and celebrated; and

b) the acts by which one is going to recognize the inexigibility or decide the bidding dispensation.

Section II

Of the Singular Specific Organs

Art. 13. The Office of Attention to Health competes:

I-participate in the formulation and implementation of the health care policy, observed the principles and guidelines of SUS;

II-define and coordinate systems of integrated networks of health actions and services;

III-establish standards, criteria, parameters and methods for the control of the quality and evaluation of the health care;

IV-supervising and coordinating the activities of assessment;

V-identify the reference services for the establishment of technical standards of health care;

VI-elaborating and proposing standards for discipline the relations between the SUS's gestural instances and the contracted private services of health care;

VII-coordinate, follow up and evaluate, in national framework, the activities of the Ministry's assistential units;

VIII-providing technical cooperation for the improvement of the managerial and operational capacity of states, Municipalities and the Federal District;

IX-coordinate the formulation and deployment of the SUS assisted-regulation policy;

X-promote the development of strategic actions aimed at the reorientation of the health attention model, having as a structuring axis the actions of basic attention in health; and

XI-participate in the elaboration, deployment and implementation of standards, instruments and methods that strengthen the SUS management capability, at the three levels of government.

Art. 14. The Department of Basic Attention competes:

I-normatization, promote and coordinating the organization and development of the basic attention actions in health, observed the principles and guidelines of SUS;

II-normatization, promote and coordinate the organization of pharmaceutical assistance, in the framework of basic attention in health;

III-develop control mechanisms and evaluation of the actions of basic attention in health;

IV-follow up and propose instruments for managerial and operational organization of attention basic in health; and

V-providing technical cooperation to states, Municipalities and the Federal District in the organization of basic attention actions in health.

Art. 15. To the Department of Attention Specialized competes:

I-elaboration, coordinate and evaluate the medium and high complexity, ambulatory and hospital policy of SUS;

II-create technical and legal instruments for the deployment of management models;

III-create technical and legal instruments for the development of management of assisted-bed networks;

IV-elaborating parameters and managerial indicators for the management of the assisted-bed networks;

V-coordinate and follow up on the health actions and services of the hospital units of their own; and

VI-regular and coordinate the activities of the National System of Organ Transformers.

Art. 16. To the Department of Strategic Programmatic Actions compete:

I-coordinate, in articulated mode with other organs of the Ministry, the formulation of programmatic contents, technical-managerial norms, methods and instruments that reorient the model of attention to health;

II-promote the development of strategies that allow the organization of attention to health, with emphasis in basic attention, aiming to favor the access, the equesity and the completeness of the actions and services provided;

III-provide technical cooperation to states, Municipalities, and the Federal District in the organization of strategic programmatic actions;

IV-develop control mechanisms and evaluation of the strategic programmatic actions; and

V-develop inductor mechanisms that strengthen the organizational logic of systems of health, articulated between the three levels of management of SUS.

Art. 17. To the Department of Regulation, Assessment and Control of Systems competes:

I- define the Ministry's regulation policy in relation to the State Health Systems;

II-subsidize and evaluate the actions of assistential regulation implanted by the states, Municipalities and Federal District;

III-follow up and evaluate:

a) the provision of assistive health services, within SUS, in its qualitative aspects and quantitative; and

b) the transfer of financial resources from the Ministry to States, Municipalities and the Federal District;

IV-provide technical cooperation to the managers of SUS for the use of data collection instruments and information;

V-subsidize the elaboration of SUS information systems;

VI-accomplish studies for the improvement and application of the tools for control and evaluation of health care services;

VII-evaluate the actions, methods and instruments implemented by the control and evaluation body of the states, the Municipalities and the Federal District;

VIII-establish standards and define criteria for systematization and standardization of the techniques and procedures concerning the areas of control and evaluation;

IX- define, within its area of acting, forms of technical cooperation with the states, Municipalities and the Federal District for the improvement of the managerial and operative capacity of health care services;

X-subsidize the states, Municipalities, and the Federal District in the policy of contractualization with the health service providers from SUS; and

XI-define, maintain, and update national health establishment enrollment.

Art. 18. To the Department of Hospitality Management in the State of Rio de Janeiro competes:

I- integrate operational and assisted-looking healthcare services to the Ministry of Health by extending its efficiency and effectiveness;

II-articulate and coordinate the implementation of the Ministry of Health's policies and projects in the assistetive units under its responsibility;

III-implement participatory management actions and social control in health services under its responsibility; and

IV-acting in an integrated manner with the remaining services of health located in the city of Rio de Janeiro, the Metropolitan Region and the remaining Municipalities of the State, with views to the strengthening and qualification of the assistetive networks in these territories.

Art. 19. To the National Cancer Institute competes:

I-attend the Minister of State in the formulation of the national policy for the prevention, diagnosis and treatment of cancer;

II-planning, organizing, executing, directing, controlling and overseeing plans, programs, projects and activities, in national scope, related to prevention, diagnosis and treatment of malignated neoplasias and correlates affections;

III-exerts training activities, training and improvement of human resources, in all levels, in the area of cancerology;

IV-coordinate, program and carry out clinical, epidemiological and experimental research in carcinology; and

V- provide medico-assistive services to those carriers of malignated neoplasias and correlates affections.

Art. 20. The Office of Labour Management and Education in Health competes:

I- promote the ordination of human resources training in the area of health;

II- draw up and propose training and professional development policies for the area of health and monitor its implementation, as well as to promote the development of the Human Resources Observation Network in Health;

III-plan, coordinate and support the activities related to work and education in the area of health, as well as the organisation of the management of education and work in health, the formulation of criteria for the negotiations and the establishment of partnerships between SUS managers and the planning of responsibilities between the three spheres of government;

IV-promoting articulation with educational bodies, union entities and of monitoring of professional exercise and social movements, as well as with representative entities of the education of professionals, with a view to training, professional development and work in the health sector;

V-promoting integration of the health and education sectors in the sense of strengthening institutions trainers of acting professionals in the area;

VI-plan and coordinate actions, aiming at the integration and improvement of the relationship between the federal, state and municipal Issues of SUS, with regard to training, qualification and distribution plans of the education and work offerings in the area of health;

VII-plan and coordinate actions, aimed at promoting the participation of the workers of health of SUS in the management of services and the regulation of health professions;

VIII -to plan and coordinate actions, aiming at the promotion of education in health, by strengthening the own initiatives of the popular movement in the field of education in health and the management of public health policies, as well as to the promotion of information and knowledge relating to the right to health and access to actions and health services; and

IX-fostering international cooperation, including by institution and the coordination of discussion forums, aiming at solving the problems related to the training, professional development, management and regulation of work in health, especially the issues involving the neighboring countries of the American continent, Portuguese-speaking countries and countries in the southern hemisphere.

Art. 21. To the Department of Management of Education in Health compete:

I-participate in the proposition and follow-up of the education of health professionals, National Policy of Permanent Education at SUS and the Ministry's Employees Development Policy;

II-seek integration of the health and education sectors for the strengthening of institutions formers in the interest of SUS and for the suitability of vocational training to the needs of health;

III-promote the development of the network of government schools linked to the Ministry of Health and the state and municipal secretaries of health and networks education collaboratives in collective health;

IV-collaborate with the magnification of the basic schooling of health area workers who lack fundamental education, special education and basic vocational qualification, as a matter of priority in the areas essential to the functioning of SUS;

V-propose and pursue accreditation mechanisms of schools and educational programs, as well as mechanisms of certification of skills that are conducive to integration between management, training, social control and teaching, with a view to listening to the educational demands of SUS;

VI-establish policies so that the SUS service network is suitable to the teaching field condition for the training of health professionals, as well as formative processes in the SUS service network for all occupational categories;

VII-establish policies and processes for professional development in multiprofessional institutional and interdisciplinary character programs, having in view full attention to health; and

VIII-establish mechanisms of education and communication with the school network, nongovernmental organizations and the social movement.

Art. 22. To the Department of Management and Regulatory Work in Health compete:

I- plan and coordinate studies of analysis of the quantitative and qualitative needs of professionals with a profile appropriate to the health needs of the population;

II-acting together with SUS state and municipal managers for the solution of the public sector and private sector personnel problems;

III-promote and participate in the articulation of pacts between the federal, state and municipal gIssues of the SUS, with regard to production plans and the qualification and distribution of health professionals;

IV-developing joints for the construction of job plan and careers for SUS personnel, as well as supporting and stimulating this action in the state spheres and municipal;

V-plan, coordinate, and support the policy development of professional career of SUS, as well as professional career policy for the private sector;

VI-plan and coordinate the actions of professional regulation both for new occupations and occupations, and for those already established in the labor market;

VII-propose and accompany professional competency certification systems targeting to the regulation of work processes in health; and

VIII-articular system permanent bargaining of working relationships with federal, state and municipal managers, private sector and employee representations.

Art. 23. The Secretary of Science, Technology and Strategic Insumos competes:

I- formulate, implement and evaluate the National Policy of Science and Technology in Health;

II-formulate, implement and evaluate policies, guidelines and targets for the areas and strategic themes required for the implementation of the National Health Policy, within the framework of its assignments;

III-viabilizing technical cooperation to states, Municipalities and Federal District, in the framework of their acting;

IV-articulating the action of the Ministry, in the framework of its assignments, with governmental and nongovernmental organizations, with views to scientific and technological development in health;

V-formulate, implement, and evaluate the National Healthcare And Drug Assistance Policies, including hemoderivatives, vaccines, immunobiology and other related inputs, while integral parts of the National Health Policy;

VI-establish methods and mechanisms for the analysis of the economic-health feasibility of ventures in health;

VII-participate in the formulation and implementation of the market regulation actions, with views to the enhancement of the National Health Policy; and

VIII-formulate, foment, carry out and evaluate studies and projects, in the framework of their responsibilities.

Art. 24. To the Department of Pharmaceutical Assistance and Strategic Insums competes:

I -subsidize the Registry in the formulation of policies, guidelines and targets for the strategic areas and themes, necessary for the implementation of the National Health Policy, within the framework of its assignments;

II-participate in formulation and implementation, as well as coordinate the management of National Policies of Pharmaceutical and Drug Assistance, including blood, hemoderivatives, vaccines and immunobiology, while integral parts of the National Health Policy, observed the principles and guidelines of SUS;

III-provide technical cooperation for the improvement of the managerial and operational capacity of states, Municipalities and the Federal District, within the framework of their acting;

IV-coordinate the organization and the development of programs, projects and actions, in areas and themes of national inclusiveness, within the framework of their competencies;

V-formulate, propose guidelines, and coordinate the development of intersetorial actions aimed at production of inputs to health of national interest;

VI-formulate and coordinate the actions of fostering the state production of medications, such as support for government actions in health and national pharmaceutical market balizations;

VII-normatization, promote and coordinate the organization of pharmaceutical assistance, at the different levels of attention to health, obeying the principles and guidelines of the SUS;

VIII-formulating and proposing guidelines for the areas and strategic themes with views to the implementation of the National Health Policy;

IX-coordinate the acquisition and distribution of strategic inputs for health, in particular for pharmaceutical assistance;

X-propose agreements and arrangements with the states, Federal District and Municipalities for the decentralized execution of special programs and projects under the SUS, in the limit of your assignments;

XI-orient, empower, and promote support actions to the agents involved in the process of pharmaceutical assistance and strategic inputs, with views to the sustainability of the programs and projects in their area of acting;

XII-elaboration and follow up on the execution of programs and projects related to the production, acquisition, distribution, dispensing and use of medications, in the framework of the SUS.

Art. 25. To the Department of Science and Technology competes:

I-participate in the formulation, implementation and evaluation of the National Science and Technology Policy in Health, having as assumptions the needs demanded by the National Health Policy and adherence to the principles and guidelines of SUS;

II-promote intersectoral articulation, within the framework of the National Science System and Technology;

III-define standards and strategies for developing mechanisms of control and evaluation of the incorporation of technologies, promoting the diffusion of scientific and technological knowledge in health, with views to their adoption by health institutions and services, within their scope of competencies;

IV-promote, in articulation with science and technology institutions and fomenting agencies, the realization of strategic research in health;

V-providing technical cooperation for the improvement of managerial capacity, as well as guide, empower and promote support actions to the agents of states, Municipalities and the Federal District, in the framework of Science and Technology in Health;

VI-elaborating, disseminating and nurturing the observance of research guidelines and technological development related to impacts caused by environmental factors on health;

VII- follow up on the activities of the Executive Secretariat of the National Commission of Ethics in Research, instituted within the framework of the National Board of Health;

VIII-coordinate the elaboration, execution and evaluation of programs and projects in areas and themes of national comprehension, in the framework of the tasks of the Registry of Science, Technology and Strategic Insummation;

IX-implanting mechanisms of cooperation for the development of science and technology institutions that act in the area of health;

X-propose agreements and arrangements with the states, Federal District and Municipalities for the decentralized execution of special programs and projects, in the framework of SUS; and

XI-define acting strategies of the Ministry of Health in the field of biosafeness, in articulation with organs and related institutions.

Art. 26. To the Department of Health Economics competes:

I-subsidize the Registry of Science, Technology and Strategic Insumos, as well as its remaining Departments, in formulating policies, guidelines and targets for the strategic areas and themes, necessary for the implementation of the National Health Policy, in the framework of its assignments;

II-analyze the feasibility of public ventures in the sector of health;

III-subsidizing the decisions of the Office of Science, Technology and of Strategic Inputs, as well as of their too many Departments, in the touching of economic aspects of the programs and projects formulated in their scope of attribution;

IV-analyze and propose policies for cost reduction in the area of health, as well as to broaden the population's access to medicines and other inputs required by the implementation of the pharmaceutical assistance actions;

V-coordinate and carry out research on economic components of the SUS, in the framework of the tasks of the Office of Science, Technology and Strategic Insumos;

VI-propose and coordinate the deployment of bank and national price registers targeting the acquisition of strategic inputs for health; and

VII-participate in market regulation actions, within the scope of the Office of Science's assignments, Technology and Strategic Insumes.

Art. 27. The Office of Participatory Management competes:

I-coordinate the policy and proposing strategies and mechanisms for strengthening the democratic management of SUS, considering the Ministry's articulation, with the various government and non-government sectors related to the conditioners and determinants of health and the use of the area's interest information by the society;

II-stimulate and support the proper functioning of the State Boards and Municipal Health Councils, creating mechanisms for their assessment permanently;

III-coordinate policy and propose strategies of strengthening social control through the National Health Conferences, of the Plenary of Health Councils, of the National Network of Health Councils, the continued empowerment of Health Councillors, of the articulation between SUS management levels and society;

IV-coordinate policy and propose strategies for articulation and follow-up of health reform through its evaluation and analysis of its development, elaboration of studies and theses and the identification and dissemination of innovative experiments; and

V-coordinate the policy and strategies of the SUS General Ouvidory, through decentralized structures, realization of SUS user forums and cooperation with citizen rights defense entities.

Art. 28. To the Department of Articulation and Monitoring of the Sanitary Reform competes:

I-coordinate, in articulation with the other organs of the Ministry and institutions of the society, the process of development, monitoring, analysis and evaluation of Brazilian health reform;

II-identify, support, and publicize the innovative experiences in the SUS framework;

III-identify and develop evaluation of the critical aspects and distortions in the deployment of SUS; e

IV-viabilize and coordinate the realization of studies and research, by means of cooperation agreements with governmental and nongovernmental entities, which contribute to the development of the Brazilian health reform.

Art. 29. To the Department of Ouvidoria-General of SUS:

I-propose, coordinate and implement the National Ouvidory Policy in Health, under SUS, seeking to integrate and stimulate practices that extend users ' access to the SUS assessment process;

II-stimulate and support the creation of decentralized health Ouvidoria structures;

III-implement stimulus policies to the participation of users and entities of the society in the process of evaluating the services provided by SUS;

IV-analyze suggestions emanating from civil society through its organizations, with views to broadening access and improvement of health services and promoting discussion with the other organs of the Ministry;

V-stimulate the permanent realization of SUS user forums;

VI-promoting actions to ensure the preservation of ethical, privacy and confidentiality aspects in all steps of the processing of the claims or information arising;

VII-propose measures aiming at ensuring the citizen's access to the individual information existing in the health bodies;

VIII-recommend correction of issues identified upon complaints sent directly to the Ministry against illegal or undue acts and omissions in scope of health; and

IX-recommend the revocation or correction of acts that do not meet the goals and norms set out in the prevailing legislation in the area of health.

Art. 30. The Registry of Surveillance in Health competes:

I-coordinate the management of the:

a) National System of Epidemiological Surveillance;

b) National Environmental Surveillance System in Health, including working environment;

c) National System of Public Health Laboratories, in the pertinent aspects to the epidemiological and environmental surveillance in health;

d) Information Systems Epidemiological; and

e) National Program of Immunizations;

II-elaborating and disseminating health situation information and analysis permitting establish priorities, monitor the Country sanitary framework, and assess the impact of disease prevention and control actions, as well as subsidize the policy formulation of the Ministry;

III-coordinate the execution of the activities concerning the dissemination of the use of the epidemiological methodology in all levels of SUS to subsidize the formulation, implementation and evaluation of the actions of disease prevention and control and other aggravation to health;

IV-coordinate the execution of the activities regarding the prevention and control of diseases and other aggravation to health;

V-coordinate and supervise the execution of the technical activities developed by the Evandro Institute Chagas, by the Reference Center Professor Hélio Fraga and the Central of Storage and Distribution of Strategic Insums;

VI-coordinate the process of elaboration and follow-up of the Integrated Programming of Epidemiology and Disease Control (PPI-ECD);

VII-participate in the elaboration, implantation and implementation of norms, instruments and methods that strengthen SUS management capacity, at the three levels of government, in the area of epidemiology, prevention and control of diseases;

VIII-fostering and implementing the development of studies and research that contribute to the enhancement of epidemiological and environmental surveillance actions in health;

IX-promoting technical-scientific exchange, with organisms government and non-governmental, nationwide and international, in the area of epidemiology and disease control;

X-propose public health education policies and actions regarding the areas of epidemiology, prevention and control of diseases;

XI-render technical advice and establish cooperation with states, Municipalities, and the Federal District, aiming to potentiate managerial capacity and foster new practices of disease surveillance and control; and

XII-formulate and propose the Health Surveillance Policy, regulate and follow up on the health surveillance management contract.

Art. 31. To the Department of Epidemiological Surveillance compete:

I-propose standards relating to:

a) actions of prevention and control of communicable diseases;

b) notification of communicable diseases;

c) epidemiological investigation; and

d) epidemiological surveillance, at the entrance posts of the national territory;

II-adopt the measures of prevention and control of risk factors and diseases or worsening of health, pertinent to their field of acting;

III-coordinate the actions of epidemiology and control of illnesses and aggravates unusefed to health, in a complementary or supplementary manner in exceptional character, when it is overcome the enforcement capacity of states, there is the involvement of more than one State or risks of spreading at level national;

IV-normatization and define technical instruments related to the systems for information on compulsory notification diseases and diseases under monitoring;

V-analyze, monitor and guide the execution of disease prevention and control actions that integrate the list of compulsory notification diseases or come take on importance for public health;

VI-draw up indicators of epidemiological surveillance for the analysis and monitoring of the epidemiological behavior of diseases under surveillance and aggravated health exacerbation;

VII-propose the national list of compulsory notification diseases;

VIII-propose the basic scheme of mandatory character vaccines;

IX-coordinate the investigation of outbreaks and epidemics, in particular of emerging diseases and of unknown or unenlightened etiology, and of adverse events temporally associated with vaccination;

X-normatization and overseeing the System National of Public Health Laboratories in the aspects concerning epidemiological and environmental surveillance in health;

XI-normatization, coordinate and supervise the use of immunobiologics;

XII-participate in the elaboration and oversee the execution of the actions in PPI-ECD; and

XIII-render technical advice and establish cooperation to states, Municipalities and the Federal District in the organization of the actions of epidemiology, immunization, lab and too much action on disease prevention and control.

Art. 32. To the Department of Health Situation Analysis, compete:

I-elaborate studies and analyses for monitoring the epidemiological framework and evaluation of the impact of health policies and programs;

II-monitor the epidemiological behavior of noncommunicable diseases and other aggravation to health;

III-normatization and coordinate the execution of the vital statistics systems;

IV-promote and publicize analysis of the information generated by the systems;

V-develop methodologies for studies and health situation analyses;

VI-participate in the elaboration and overseeing the execution of the actions in PPI-ECD; and

VII-render technical advice and establish cooperation to states, Municipalities, and the Federal District in the organization of the actions inherent in the health situation analysis.

Section III

From the Collegiated Bodies

Art. 33. To the National Board of Health competes:

I-deliberating on:

a) formulation of strategy and control of national health policy implementation in scope federal; and

b) criteria for the definition of patterns and parameters assistetential;

II-manifest on the National Health Policy;

III-decide on:

a) state health plans, when requested by the respective Councils;

b) divergences raised by the State Boards and Municipal Health Councils, as well as by organs of representation in the area of health; and

c) accreditation of health institutions that apply to carry out research in human beings;

IV-opinionate on creation of new higher courses in the area of health, in articulation with the Ministry of Education;

V-establish guidelines to be observed in the elaboration of health plans in function of the epidemiological characteristics and organization of the services;

VI-track the execution of the financial resources transfer schedule, consigned to SUS, the States, Federal District and Municipalities;

VII-approve the criteria and values for the remuneration of services and the parameters of assistential coverage;

VIII-track and control the activities of private health institutions, accredited upon contract, tuning, or convennial;

IX-follow up the process of scientific and technological development and incorporation in the health area, for the observance of ethical standards compatible with the socio-cultural development of the Country; and

X-propose to convene and organize the National Conference of Health, ordinarily every four years and, extraordinarily, pursuant to the Act no 8,142, of 28 of December 1990.

§ 1st The composition, organization and operation of the Council National Health will be established in accordance with the current legislation.

§ 2nd The National Board of Health will have a Secretariat-Executive Office for coordination of technical-administrative support activities.

Art. 34. To the Board of Health Supplementary compete:

I-establish the guidelines general and overseeing the implementation of the policies of the supplementary health sector;

II-approve the management contract of the National Supplementary Health Agency;

III -supervise and follow up on the actions and functioning of the National Supplementary Health Agency;

IV-fix general guidelines, for implementation in the supplementary health sector, about:

a) econo-financial aspects-financial;

b) norms of accounting, actuarial and statistics;

c) parameters as to the capital and minimum net worth, as well as to the shapes of its subscribing and realization when it comes to anonymous society;

d) criteria of constitution of guarantees of maintenance of the economic balance-financial, consistent in goods, furniture or real estate, or special funds or secured insurances; and

e) background creation, secure insurance contracting, or other instruments that judge proper, with the aim of protecting the consumer from private plans of health assistance in the event of insolvency of operating companies; and

V- deliberating on the creation of technical chambers, of advisory character, in such a way as to subsidize their decisions.

Paragraph single. The National Supplemental Health Agency shall lay down the standards on the subjects provided for in the inciso IV of this article, and shall appropriate them, if necessary, when there are general guidelines established by the Supplementary Health Board.

Art. 35. The organs and entities of the Ministry of Health are to manage the data and information regarding their area of acting by aggregating them to the National Health Information System, as per the provisions of point "d" inciso III of the art. 16 of the Law no 8,080, of September 19, 1990.

CHAPTER IV

DAS ATTRIBUTIONS OF LEADERS

Section I

From the Executive Secretary

Art. 36. The Executive Secretary is incumbent on:

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

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 affected 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

Dos Secretaries and too many Leaders

Art. 37. To the Secretaries it is incumbent on planning, directing, coordinating, directing, monitoring and evaluating the execution of the activities of the units that integrate their respective Secretaries, and to exercise other assignments that are committed to them in internal regiment.

Single paragraph. It is still incumbent upon the Secretaries to exercise the assignments expressly delegated to them, admitted to sub-delegation to the directly subordinate authority.

Art. 38. To the Chief Minister's Office, the Legal Adviser, the Undersecretaries, the Directors, the Coordinators-General and the remaining leaders it is incumbent on planning, directing, coordinating and directing the implementation of the activities of the respective units and to exercise other assignments that are committed to them in their areas of competence.

CHAPTER V

OF THE GENERAL AND TRANSITIONAL PROVISIONS

Art. 39. The activities of control, evaluation and auditing within the Ministry of Health stay organized in the form that follows:

I-the National Department of Audit of the SUS will act on the follow-up of the approved programming of the application of the resources passed on to states, to the Municipalities, to the Federal District and in checking the regularity of procedures practiced by physical and legal persons, upon analytical examination, on-the-spot verification and expert; and

II-the Department of Regulation, Assessment and Control of Systems will act on the implementation of the activities of control and evaluation, upon continuous monitoring and monitoring of the actions and services developed within the SUS, without prejudice to the control and evaluation activities pertinent to each organ or entity of the Ministry.

Art. 40. The Executive Directorate of the National Health Fund will adopt procedures for ressaration to the Fund of established values in control and auditing actions.

Art. 41. The internal regiments will define the detailing of the integral organs of the Regimental Structure, the competences of the respective units and the assignments of their leaders.