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44 statements · 1 politicians · June 16, 2026
Statements by Marcos Rogério. 44 transcribed statements, with topic and stance on the ones the analysis classified. Topics: Regulatory Policy, Infrastructure and Sanitation, Public Budget, Legislative Process.
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Mr. President, Ladies and Gentlemen Senators, this is an extremely important moment for Brazil.
About: recover and strengthen the regulatory agencies and the Central Bank
When we talk about strengthening the regulatory agencies, we are precisely talking about strengthening Brazil's infrastructure, because these agencies, since 1990, have been the instrument that the Brazilian State created precisely to enable the entry of the private sector into Brazil's structuring solutions.
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About: recover and strengthen the regulatory agencies and the Central Bank
In other words, the public sector was unable to provide answers to the problems of national infrastructure, and the private sector was called upon to participate.
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About: recover and strengthen the regulatory agencies and the Central Bank
And it is precisely the regulator who fulfills the task of ensuring an environment of predictability, legal certainty, and regulatory certainty.
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About: recover and strengthen the regulatory agencies and the Central Bank
So, Mr. President, Law No. 13,848, the so-called General Law of the Agencies, consolidated that choice: fixed terms for agency directors; technical, decisional, administrative and financial independence.
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About: recover and strengthen the regulatory agencies and the Central Bank
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.
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About: recover and strengthen the regulatory agencies and the Central Bank
The law guarantees autonomy, but the budget can deny it.
About: recover and strengthen the regulatory agencies and the Central Bank
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.
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About: recover and strengthen the regulatory agencies and the Central Bank
Today, we had, in the Commission on Infrastructure, the presence of the director-presidents of the agencies.
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About: recover and strengthen the regulatory agencies and the Central Bank
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.
About: recover and strengthen the regulatory agencies and the Central Bank
This precisely represents a break with what the General Law of the Agencies intended and proposed: autonomous agencies, in terms of their decisions and their functioning.
About: recover and strengthen the regulatory agencies and the Central Bank
But, when the budget is lacking, that autonomy ceases to exist in practice.
About: recover and strengthen the regulatory agencies and the Central Bank
It was precisely in this context that PLP 73, of 2025, authored by Senator Laércio Oliveira, came forward, bringing a legislative solution to provide a structured solution for all the agencies.
Here, I acknowledge the presence of Dr. Guilherme Sampaio, who is President of the Agência de Transportes Terrestres (ANTT) and is also the President of the collegiate of presidents of the country's regulatory agencies.
About: recover and strengthen the regulatory agencies and the Central Bank
The presence of the directors in the Federal Senate today was a clear demonstration of the importance of this PLP.
And the sensitivity, here, Mr. President... I want to highlight Your Excellency's sensitivity in placing this matter on the agenda.
About: recover and strengthen the regulatory agencies and the Central Bank
You could simply have left it to be voted at another time, but we are dealing with a theme that is central to the country's development.
About: prioritize infrastructure investment in Brazil
Infrastructure should drive development. In Brazil we live an inversion: here development often ends up driving infrastructure.
So I am, as Chair of the Infrastructure Commission, extremely honored that President Davi placed the matter on the agenda today and allowed us to vote on it.
Having said that, I will proceed to the analysis from the point of view of the Committee on Economic Affairs, going straight to the analysis.
It is for the Plenary to consider the matter on this occasion in substitution of the Committee on Economic Affairs, especially regarding constitutional, legal, procedural, legislative technique, economic and financial aspects — originating attributions of the CAE, pursuant to arts. 97 and 99 of the Internal Rules of the Federal Senate.
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About: amend the Fiscal Responsibility Law to protect regulatory agencies' budgets
The matter falls within the field of the Union's concurrent competence to legislate on financial law, pursuant to art. 24, item I, of the Federal Constitution.
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About: amend the Fiscal Responsibility Law to protect regulatory agencies' budgets
Moreover, since it involves an amendment to the Fiscal Responsibility Law, art. 163, item I, of the Federal Constitution also applies, according to which a complementary law shall provide on public finances.
The Union, in this context, has competence to issue general norms on the matter, pursuant to art. 24, §1, of the Federal Constitution.
Parliamentary initiative is also legitimate, since the project does not deal with matters reserved to the exclusive initiative of the President of the Republic.
The proposal does not create or extinguish bodies, positions, functions or public jobs, does not alter the administrative structure of the Executive Branch and does not establish a specific mandatory expenditure.
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About: amend the Fiscal Responsibility Law to protect regulatory agencies' budgets
It is limited to modifying the general rule of budgetary and financial execution by expanding the hypotheses of expenditures not subject to limitations on commitment and financial movement.
About: amend the Fiscal Responsibility Law to protect regulatory agencies' budgets
From the material standpoint, the proposal is compatible with the Federal Constitution.
About: amend the Fiscal Responsibility Law to protect regulatory agencies' budgets
The proposed amendment does not constitute an innovation incompatible with the Brazilian fiscal regime, since art. 9, §2, of the Fiscal Responsibility Law already foresees cases of expenditures exempted from the limitation on commitments.
About: recover and strengthen the regulatory agencies and the Central Bank
The bill, therefore, does not set aside fiscal responsibility, but adjusts its instruments to the institutional nature of the federal regulatory agencies, whose activities require stability, predictability and operational continuity.
About: recover and strengthen the regulatory agencies and the Central Bank
On the merits, PLP 73, of 2025, is convenient and timely.
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About: recover and strengthen the regulatory agencies and the Central Bank
The federal regulatory agencies perform strategic functions in essential sectors of the economy, such as energy, transport, telecommunications, supplementary health, sanitation, mining, oil and gas, health surveillance, civil aviation and data protection, among others.
Their performance involves technical regulation, oversight, standardization, analysis of concessions, contract monitoring, dispute resolution, tariff regulation and consumer protection.
About: recover and strengthen the regulatory agencies and the Central Bank
Limitations on commitment and financial movements for these entities can directly compromise the quality of regulation and legal certainty in the regulated sectors.
About: recover and strengthen the regulatory agencies and the Central Bank
An abrupt reduction of resources can affect inspections, oversight, technological systems, process analyses and other activities indispensable to the agencies' functioning.
About: recover and strengthen the regulatory agencies and the Central Bank
Additionally, the limitation of activities can generate higher economic costs in the future, because the discontinuity of inspections, technical analyses and processes tends to accumulate administrative liabilities, delay decisions, increase litigation and later require higher budgetary efforts to restore the lost operational capacity.
About: maintain Amendment No. 4 of the Infrastructure Committee to PLP 73/2025
Regarding Amendment No. 4, from the CI, I understand that it improves the original text, because it avoids controversies about the separation between support activities and core activities.
Regulatory activity depends on technological, administrative, legal, logistical and operational structure without which the very final function is harmed, which is why I maintain its acceptance.
About: recover and strengthen the regulatory agencies and the Central Bank
Thus, I understand that the approval of this PLP strengthens the institutional autonomy of the regulatory agencies, preserves the continuity of their activities and contributes to regulatory stability, without contravening the constitutional regime of fiscal responsibility and acting in an economically responsible manner by avoiding the costs of discontinuity.
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About: submit an editorial amendment to PLP 73/2025 to regulate its entry into force
Concerning legislative technique, however, we perceive the need for an editorial adjustment to art. 2, which determines the entry into force of the future law in 365 days, without the expression 'after its publication'.
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