Source: Portal Fator Brasil, 22/09/2008

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The Gaucho section of the British Chamber of Industry and Commerce in Brazil, Britcham / RS, will hold on the 23/09 (Tuesday), at Novotel (Avenida Soledade, 575), from 8 am to 16 pm, the seminar “Debureaucratization and Efficiency Managerial ”. The meeting, aimed at businessmen, administrators, lawyers and the general public, will bring together specialists in the field of public administration to discuss obstacles in the procedures, routines and processes of the Brazilian bureaucratic system. According to the president of Britcham / RS, Felipe Ferreira Silva and the Coordinator of the entity's Legal Committee, Guilherme Rizzo Amaral, the reduction in the cost of public services and the increase in their efficiency necessarily involve the issue of red tape. The governor of Rio Grande do Sul, Yeda Crusius, will open the cycle of lectures, revealing what actions are being taken to appease the excessive bureaucratization of the state's public machinery. The Role of Integrated Service Centers in the Bureaucratization Process, The Economic Value of Ethical Behavior, Origins of Special Courts, Models of Bureaucracy and Efficiency and the New Challenges in the Reform of the Justice System will be the subjects addressed during the Seminar.

Among the speakers, the founder of the Hélio Beltrão Institute, Antonio Marcos Umbelino Lobo, an organization that seeks to reduce undue government interference in the lives of citizens and the company, André Franco Montoro Filho, former secretary of economics and planning of the state of São Paulo (1995/2002) and BNDES, and current President of ETCO - Brazilian Institute of Ethics in Competition, and the Superintendent of the Poupatempo Program (SP) from 1999 to 2006, Daniel Annemberg.