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ETCO will have support from Machado Meyer in events on combating corruption

Machado, Meyer, Sendacz and Opice Advogados, through their practice area Compliance and Corporate Integrity, led by lawyer Leonardo Ruiz Machado, will support the Brazilian Institute for Competition Ethics (ETCO) in the actions developed by the entity with a focus on supporting the fight against corruption. The partnership was built in a meeting held with ETCO's executive president, Evandro Guimarães, on July 3, at the institute's headquarters in São Paulo.

At the time, the participation of the lawyer as a speaker in two events on Law 12.846 / 13, also known as Anticorruption Law, which are being organized by ETCO was agreed. The seminars, with a date to be defined, will discuss the impacts of the new law for companies, especially with regard to the relationship with public agents. The Anti-Corruption Law has been in force since January 29, although it has not yet been regulated by the Federal Executive Branch with respect to one of its most innovative points: compliance.

In addition to participating in the seminars, Machado Meyer will collaborate with ETCO in the development of other initiatives to support the fight against corruption scheduled for 2014.

About Machado, Meyer, Sendacz and Opice

Founded in 1972, Machado, Meyer, Sendacz e Opice Advogados is one of the most respected law firms in Brazil. With operations in all areas of law, it offers legal assistance to national and international clients, including large corporations from the most varied sectors of activity, financial institutions and government entities. The office is present in São Paulo, Rio de Janeiro, Brasília, Belo Horizonte, Porto Alegre and New York.

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CEDES and CADE promote debate on compliance and defense of competition

On August 28 and 29, the Center for the Study of Economic and Social Law (CEDES), in partnership with CADE, will hold a seminar to address the issue Compliance and Competition Defense. The panels will present elements essential to competitive compliance, in addition to effective programs and international experiences.

The seminar will be held in the TRF auditorium of the 3rd Region, with headquarters at Avenida Paulista, 1842, 25th floor - Bela Vista - São Paulo / SP. To participate, simply register for free at the link: http://www.trf3.jus.br/semag/

Febraban to hold 4th Congress to combat and prevent money laundering and terrorist financing

In early August, Febraban performs the 4th Congress on combating and preventing money laundering and financing of terrorism. The event will address the Anti-Corruption Law and the Access to Information Law, in addition to discussing corruption from the perspective of the Electoral Law. Among the speakers, names such as Mário Spinelli, General Corregidor of the Municipality of São Paulo and Sérgio Nogueira Seabra, CGU's Secretary of Transparency and Corruption Prevention, are confirmed. Registrations can be made directly on the Febraban website.

Data: 07th and 08th of August
Location: São Paulo State Trade Federation (Fecomércio)
Address: Rua Doutor Plínio Barreto, 285 - Bela Vista - São Paulo / SP
More information: http://www.febraban.org.br/Arquivo/Servicos/Eventoscursos/PLD2014/index.asp

III Seminar I Do Not Accept Corruption

Seminar scheduled for August 12, in São Paulo, will be held by the Movement of the Democratic Public Ministry

In the context of the campaign I do not accept corruption and on the occasion of the approaching of the October elections, after discussing Control of Corruption and the Law on Access to Public Information, we promoted the III Seminar I do not accept Corruption, placing electoral corruption, the new anti-corruption law and impunity on the agenda: how to face it?

Data: 12 for August
Location: Paulista Wall Street - São Paulo (SP)
Address: Rua Itapeva, 636 - Jardins
More information: http://www.mpd.org.br

The Evil of Corruption

"Public health in Brazil goes from bad to worse." For decades this phrase has permeated the reality of all Brazilians, whether they are users of the Unified Health System (SUS) or workers in the sector. And who is responsible for the problem? For a complex question, there are several answers, one of which is very common - corruption.

Yes, corruption is ingrained in negotiations, fraud and deviations from the SUS, and must be combated with rigor. But would corruption be a cause or an effect? Diagnosis or symptom? The main causes of the permanent crisis in the public health system stem from the lack of focus on actions and the devaluation of the civil servant's career. To summarize in two words: inefficient management.
The first step is to shift the focus to results. A recent report by the Federal Court of Auditors ratified the chaotic conditions of public health in Brazil, but innovated by including in the audit procedures the analysis of the quality of care.

For the first time, a control body was concerned not only with the correct application of public money, but also with the standard of care provided to SUS users. This does not mean that, from now on, the ends justify the means, but that, in addition to bids, contracts and agreements, managers and inspectors will also have to turn to the user's satisfaction.
It is also necessary to change the reality of health unit professionals. Maintaining the status quo of civil servants is unable to meet society's demand for quality services.

It is necessary to review the career plans of statutory professionals, with the inclusion of remuneration based on performance indicators, so that workers feel motivated to overcome their own limits and, thus, return to invest in the public career as a life goal. .

All public health problems result from the current management model. Or rather, the lack of management. The current model is eminently procedural, without due observance of the results to be achieved, based on backward legislation that plagues public administration.

It is a model devoid of the managerial tools necessary for the strategic, tactical and operational planning of SUS, as well as for the management of the daily routine of public health units.

Reinventing the current SUS management model is the main challenge in offering quality services to patients and family members, as well as curbing the rampant corruption that plagues SUS from the north to the south of the country.

By José Carlos Pitangueira Filho, physician, he is the Director of Projects of the National Institute of Assistance to Health and Education (Inase).

Originally published in O Globo, on 20/06/2014.

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Scam and corruption

Source: O Globo - 06/11/2012

 

They use various devices to obtain illicit gains

An important transformation begins to take place with the gradual realization, by the population in general, that the purchase of certain products at artificially low prices is harmful to their own interests.

What is at stake in certain cases is tax evasion for acts of fraud, forgery, corruption.

Evasion that, of course, results in a reduction of resources available to government authorities for application in essential public policies, such as health, education, infrastructure.

The fuel sector is emblematic of this situation.

In it, vested interests use the most varied devices to obtain illicit gains: from fraud, through the mixture of inappropriate products, to constant appeals to the Judiciary in the search for injunctions that enable the continued non-payment of taxes.

Some companies in the sector try to achieve competitive advantages by reducing, through unethical means, the final price of the product. Although the price difference seems marginal, in reality the sale of large volumes - as is the essence of the fuel industry - generates huge undue gains.

This is at the expense of serious and responsible companies, which regularly pay their taxes.

This characterizes a situation of blatant unfair competition.

Conquering the market with the practice of non-payment of taxes, either by means of judicial remedies or by trying to offset debts with debatable assets, such as certain court orders, is something that affects the national regulatory system, stimulates unfair competition and deprives public coffers money needed to support public interest programs and initiatives.

The consumer is the biggest loser.

In view of this scenario, the courageous and forceful performance of the government of the State of Rio de Janeiro deserves full support in recovering the taxes owed by fuel companies installed in the state and who are in default or are in default.

The Brazilian Institute of Competitive Ethics (ETCO), committed to combating misconduct that damages the business environment, distorts competition conditions and damages the country's development, draws attention to the serious problem of tax evasion in marketing of fuels.

Roberto Abdenur is executive president of the Brazilian Institute of Competitive Ethics (ETCO)

“Corruption vs. Development”

ETCO Magazine - October 2012 / Nº 19 - Year 09

“Corruption vs. Development”: The large volume of resources that will be invested around the world calls for transparency between public and private.

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Highlights of this edition:
Bolivar Lamounier: How to settle the bill for 500 years of nepotism and the habit of appropriating public resources

Marcos Neder: The return to dividend taxation in Brazil and its harmful effects on growth

Combating tax evasion: The first results of the Electronic Invoice Intelligence System

Interview: Edney Silvestre talks about his new book “Happiness is easy” and says that decency is always possible

“Corruption, Ethics and Economics”, by André Franco Montoro Filho, is released in Brasília

On September 18, André Franco Montoro Filho was in the Federal District for autograph night for his most recent work, “Corruption, Ethics and Economics - Reflections on Competitive Ethics in Market Economies”, published by ETCO and Campus / Elsevier publisher .

With a preface by Tercio Sampaio Ferraz Junior, “Corruption, Ethics and Economics - Reflections on Competitive Ethics in Market Economies” brings together 33 texts produced by ETCO's adviser, André Franco Montoro Filho, between 2006 and 2011, a period in which he dedicated himself the study of the advantages of ethical behavior and, on the other hand, of the social losses of transgressions. Certain that, in order to rise to the stage of development it is in, Brazil needs to move forward within the legal framework, ETCO has brought to the public an indispensable work for understanding what a healthy business environment is, showing how to overcome obstacles for healthy and sustained growth.

“The tests are interconnected in such a way that they allow us, with the resulting distance of time, to understand how the inducers of the culture of transgressions work, which result in high economic and social costs”, comments ETCO's executive president, Roberto Abdenur.

In the preface by Tercio Sampaio Ferraz Junior, a summary of the work:

“This is a book of short texts and sharp reflections. In it, Montoro perceives the triggering of very real forms of economic and social inequality, bureaucratic imbalance and legal distortion, behavioral dysfunctions and corruption, which end up consummating a split between ethics, on the one hand, politics and law, on the other. Ethics are degraded in the morals of interest and efficiency, and politics and law end up in exile in the abstraction of the law or, then, confiscated by ideological opportunism. Hence its call for the rescue of legal security, legislative rationality and effective enforcement of laws. ”

CORRUPTION, ETHICS AND ECONOMY

Reflections on Competition Ethics in Market Economies

Author: André Franco Montoro Filho

Foreword: Tercio Sampaio Ferraz Junior

Publisher: Campus / Elsevier

1st edition, 2012, 168 pages

ISBN 978-85-352-6196-7

Suggested price: R $ 45,00