For more than a decade, the Central Bank of Brazil (Bacen) and the Administrative Council of Economic Defense (Cade) have been trying to define their respective jurisdiction to deal with issues related to the defense of competition in the national financial system.

In March 2017, the federal government announced the launch of a new round of concessions from the Investment Partnership Program (PPI). The estimate is that about R$ 45 billion in investments will be raised, and the main targets are the energy, transportation, and sanitation sectors. In all, 35 power transmission lots (distributed in 17 states), two highway concessions, 11 port terminals, five railways, and 14 sanitation projects were announced.

Individuals and legal entities resident, domiciled or with headquarters in Brazil, as provided for in tax law, must report to the Central Bank of Brazil, on an annual basis, the assets and amounts held by them outside the country.

The possibility of protecting the title of intellectual works is much debated, principally in the case of audiovisual works, especially television programs. The Brazilian Copyright Law expressly prohibits protection of titles in isolation, as per article 8, VI, according to which titles shall only be protected together with the work.

The Federal Constitution, in article 37, paragraph 5, provides that the statutory limitations periods for unlawful acts against the Brazilian treasury shall be established by law, except for suits for reimbursement. This caveat admitted the emergence of at least three lines of interpretation regarding the absence of any time-bar: it affects any suit for reimbursement to the treasury; it only pertains to suits for reimbursement due to criminal offenses or administrative acts of corruption; or it does not contemplate any kind of action.

In this article we analyze which situations call for companies providing public aviation services to submit their corporate acts for the approval of the National Civil Aviation Agency (ANAC) before they are filed with the competent board of trade.