Marcos Rogério: The law was clear: the regulatory agency is not an arm of the government in office, it is a State body; but there is a contradiction that needs to be stated clearly.
Marcos Rogério: The law guarantees autonomy, but the budget can deny it.
Therefore, it is a non-existent autonomy, because it has autonomy to decide, but, when it lacks a budget, it cannot fulfill its institutional mission.
Marcos Rogério: Today, we had, in the Commission on Infrastructure, the presence of the director-presidents of the agencies.
Marcos Rogério: Senator Laércio Oliveira, Your Excellency participated in the public hearing as the author of the complementary bill and heard accounts there that demonstrated the impracticability of the agencies' operation due to the budgetary constraints; inspections and services compromised for lack of budget.