Agências reguladoras no Brasil: evolução, avaliação e perspectivas

Abstract

At the same time of the privatization of most of the Brazilian infrastructure sector, the regulatory agencies have been created to supervise and regulate the sectors under their responsibility. Until the creation of these agencies, such role was in charge of State bureaucracy through the sector s ministries and their secretariats. As most of the infrastructure was state owned, the government controlled, set the guidelines and regulated its own companies. After the privatization of most of the infrastructure, there is a change in this practice. If beforehand the government could set target to its companies aiming at achieving its goals, now it does not have the control on most of the companies in the infrastructure sector. Although it maintains targets for those areas, it must accomplish the contracts with the private companies.

This work aims at evaluating the process of creation of the regulatory agencies along Fernando Henrique Cardoso administration, as well as the performance of those ones regulating infrastructure sectors, and also analyze the new proposal of Luís Inácio Lula da Silva government. As a whole, regulatory agencies played their role well, although further improvements are required either in terms of the service of the concessionaires, or in terms of the way regulatory agencies work. In such context, there is a proposal for regulating those agencies, renewing the debate on the subject