Name: MARIA CLARA DE OLIVEIRA LEITE
Publication date: 23/09/2016
Advisor:
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| EDNILSON SILVA FELIPE | Advisor * |
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| EDNILSON SILVA FELIPE | Advisor * |
Summary: It analyzes the water supplys regulation in Brazil, comparing it with the English and North
American regulatory models. It raises the institutional framework, from the 1970s onwards,
relating to such regulations. It establishes comparative parameters between Brazilian and the
selected countries regulatory instruments; It presents the differences and similarities between
the compared models, focusing on Brazil, through bibliographic research and theoretical
analysis, which includes secondary data from sundrey national and international documents.
The time frame ilustrates the main institutions development on this sector, in these countries.
The sectors regulatory structure, in England, is centralized and bipartite, with functional
separation between the economic and environmental regulators, while the US and Brazilian
structures are institutionally pluralistic, with responsibilities divided between different
federations levels and the participation of various stakeholders. These features are related to
the services provision form, the historical issues that the industry in these countries passed
through, and even to the decisions taken by key players, accumulated over time. In historical
perspective, the obstruction of the sectoral policy is not unique to Brazil. The regulation goes
through cycles and the credibility of regulators is an essential factor associated to the cycles
success. The organs trajectory and independence are essential in conflict resolution without
favoring the interests of a particular group. One of the main reasons for the regulatory
distinctions between the United States and England is the credibility of its regulatory agencies
throughout history. The Brazilian regulatory experience is recent. The creation of regulatory
agencies, in the sector, in Brazil, took place from the 1990s, becoming more intense in 2000s.
The incipient trajectory of these agencies hinders to affirm whether the Brazilian regulatory
restrictions are related mainly to the insufficient development of the agencies or to the level of
credibility they have to exercise regulation. In this sense, one can learn with both experiences,
depending on the considered point.
