RIO DE JANEIRO, BRAZIL – On Tuesday, May 25, the Brazilian Chamber of Deputy’s Constitution and Justice Committee (CCJ) approved the admissibility of the proposed amendment to the Constitution (PEC) providing for administrative reform; this is the first legislative step for the measure that will change the rules in government employment.
Since the admissibility has been approved, meaning the proposal meets constitutional and legal requirements, the PEC will now proceed to a special committee to discuss its substance.
Chamber president Arthur Lira (PP-AL) praised the approval of the measure by the committee:
“The Chamber’s CCJ today established another milestone in the country’s reform agenda, by passing the admissibility of the administrative reform. Now the text will be forwarded to the Special Committee, where the debate on its substance will begin,” he said on Twitter.
The reform, included in a PEC, changes provisions on civil servants, government employees and administrative organization, with the aim of “conferring greater efficiency, efficacy and effectiveness to the actions of the State.”
Last week, the bill’s rapporteur Darci de Matos (PSD-SC), presented an opinion favorable to the PEC’s admissibility. At the time, he recommended the removal of parts of the original bill. One of them dealt with preventing servants of certain official positions from exercising any paid private activity. The other provided that the President could extinguish, change or merge public entities, both autarchies and foundations.
Later, he also recommended the removal of an item that dealt with new principles of public administration such as impartiality, transparency, innovation, responsibility, unity, coordination, good public governance, and subsidiarity.
The rapporteur acknowledged that most controversies involve issues of substance, to be discussed in the special committee.
Earlier, at a BTG Pactual CEO Conference, both the presidents of the Chamber and the Senate, called attention to the proposal’s importance, but stressed that it will not cover employees currently in public service.
Source: Exame