VI WORKSHOP ANEEL – USEA/USAID
ANEEL and the Regulatory Process
of the Electricity Sector
August, 9th, 2005
Brasília – DF
Alvaro Mesquita
Superintendet of Institutional
Relations
Sumary
I.
Institutional roles of the Power Sector
II. Regulatory Process
III. Performance, attributes and
description of ANEEL
IV. Regulator’s challenges
Institutional Roles of the
Power Sector
Policies and directives:
• National Congress
• National Council of Energy Policy – CNPE – approval by
the President of the Republic
• Chamber of Infra-structure Policies of the Government
Council
Planning and assurance of the balance between supply and delivery:
•
Ministry of Mines and Energy – MME
Research and studies for the planning of the energy sector
• Energy Research Company - EPE
Regulatory Body and Delegation of Power
• Brazilian Electricity Regulatory Agency – ANEEL
Institutional Roles of the
Power Sector
 Overview, control and operation of the systems:
• National Operator of the Power System – ONS
 Monitoring and evaluation to assure the reliability
and security of the supply:
•
Electric Sector Monitoring Committee – CMSE
 Accounting and clearing
•
Chamber of Commercialization of Electric Power
– CCEE
 Execution and service delivery to the costumers:
•
Entities G, T, D e C
FOCUS: Public Interest
ANEEL’s performance
Consumers/society
• Resonable tariffs
• Quality of service
• Guarantee of rights
ANEEL
Employees
Government
• Adequate remuneration
• Contracts honored
• Predictable and clear rules
• Strategic interests
• Development model
Universal service
Regulatory Process
Draft of Law
Federal
Government
National
Congress
Provisory
Act
Law
Draft of Law
Decree
ANEEL
Monitoring
and Control
Regulatory
Mediation
Official Public
Position of the ANEEL
Public Audience
or Consult
Technical
Discussion
ATTRIBUTIONS
Monitoring the performance of the
power sector
REGULATORY
Where necessary - following the
legal framework and specific
policies
AUDITING
Guide and advise – enforce
penalties when unavoidable
MEDIATION
ION
Dispute settlement
Energy auctions
Auctions for new
enterprises (G/T)(*)
Delegation of authority (*)
Authorization(*)
(*) Delegation of authority by Federal Government, through MME,
responsible to assure the supply of electricity
Characterization of ANEEL
•
•
Decision-making independence
Administrative, financial and property management
autonomy
• Staggered terms for Commissioners – nominated
by
the President, approved by the Senate
• Commissioners – cannot be fired without good
cause
• “Quaranthe”
• Decision Collegiate Board
• No hierarchy subordination
• Final administrative option
• Technical discretionary power
External control
• Legislative Body
• Sub-commission of the CFC of the
Senate
• Public Hearings (~70)
• Request information
• National Accounting Tribunal
• (accounts approved from 1997 to 2002)
• Judiciary (Review of the acts)
• Public Ministry
•Executive Body
• Secretary of Federal Control
• Contract Management
• Fulfillment of PPA goals
• Consumer Advocate - (organized by the Civil
Society)
Transparency and improvement of
the society’s participation
Transparency improves the
efficiency and social control
and promotes better regulation
to the benefit of society.
Transparency and society’s
participation - Decentralization
To make the regulation, auditing and mediation actions
closer to the consumers and sectorial agents
To expedite the regulatory process, monitor service
quality, mediation and delegation
To adjust the regulation, auditing and mediation
actions to local circumstances
To minimize or to solve the problems of the
relationship between consumers and concessionaires
at local level
DECENTRALIZATION
ARSEP (MA)
Agência Reguladora de
Serviços Públicos Maranhão
ARCON (PA)
ARCE (CE)
Agência Estadual de Regulação e
Controle de Serviços Públicos
Agência Reguladora de Serviços
Públicos Delegados do Estado do
Ceará
Agência Reguladora de
Serviços Públicos do Rio Grande
do Norte
ARSEP (RN)
ARSAM (AM)
Agência Reguladora dos Serviços
Públicos Concedidos do Estado do
Amazonas
AGEEL (PB)
ASTINS (TO)
Agência Estadual de Energia
da Paraíba
Agência de Serviços Públicos
Delegados do Tocantins
ARPE (PE)
Agência Estadual de Regulação dos
Serviços Públicos Delegados de
Pernambuco
AGEAC (AC)
Agência Reguladora dos
Serviços Públicos do Estado
do Acre
ARSAL (AL)
Agência Reguladora de
Serviços Públicos do Estado de Alagoas
AGER (MT)
Agência Estadual de Regulação
dos Serviços Públicos Delegados
do Mato Grosso
AGERBA (BA)
Agência Estadual de Regulação de
Serviços Públicos de Energia, Transporte
e Comunicações da Bahia
AGEPAN (MS)
Agência Estadual de Regulação de Serviços
Públicos de Mato Grosso do Sul
AGESP (ES)
AGR (GO)
Agência Estadual de Serviços Públicos
Agência Goiana de Regulação, Controle e
Fiscalização de Serviços Públicos
ASEP (RJ)
Agência Reguladora de Serviços
Públicos Concedidos
AGERGS (RS)
Agreements signed (13)
Agência Estadual de Regulação dos
Serviços Públicos Delegados do Rio
Grande do Sul
Agencies created without delegation (06)
In negotiation (08)
ARCO (SC)
CSPE (SP)
Comissão de Serviços Públicos de
Energia
Agência Catarinense de Regulação e
Controle
November//2004
Transparency and society’s
participation
• Relationship with the Legislative – more then
70 public hearings and thematic meetings
• Public Director’s meetings: since October, 2004
• Ethics Code – consolidation, approval and
Implementation (Ethics Commission)
Transparency and society’s
participation
• 1 Council of Consumers in each 64 distributors of
energy
• 2003 – ANEEL’s Home Page: easy access to the
process for consumers and regulatory agencies
(Ex.: authorization of contracts, monitoring reports,
tariffs and quality indices )
• Petitions and public hearings – regulation and
auditing (more then 150)
Public Hearings
Society’s participation in the regulatory
process
• Democratization of the regulatory process
• Transparency
• Publicity
• Advance preparation of the Consumer’s
Council and Organizations of Consumers
and Stakeholders – looking for improvement
• Local meetings and by teleconference
• Publicize results - Improvement
Administrative and
Decision-making proceedings
• Decision-making Process
• Decision – Board of Directors
• Public Directors meeting
• Report Director (draw) – Technical and
Judicial Support (Fact and Law)
• Broad Defense – Appeal with or without a stay
• Regulation supported by the Law 9.784/99
• Clarity, Transparency and Publicity of the Acts
• Rights and Duties of Consumers
Regulator’s challenges
• Achieve autonomy
• Skilled and adequately paid in-house staff
• Reduce asymmetry of information
• Completion of the new regulation model
• To support and enhance energy policies, to
identify improvements and to fill gaps
Regulator’s challenges
•To be recognized as a “State Institution”
that takes care of public interest
•To look for continual improvement of
ANEEL
•To strive for the reduction of charges and
tariffs
Main Regulator’s challenges
• To consolidate the process of Periodic Tariff
Review: (develop guidelines for the basis of
cost recovery)
• To expand the mechanisms of interface with
the public and agencies: workshop`s about
specific themes; disseminate a regulatory
agenda
• To guarantee the consumers rights and take
care of the compliance of the obligations and
the rights of agencies
www.aneel.gov.br
Phone: (+55) 61 2192-8906
Fax: (+55) 61 2192-8705
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