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National Water and Public Sanitation Agency (Agência Nacional de Águas e SaneamentoBásico)
ANAC
National Civil Aviation Agency (Agência Nacional de Aviação Civil)
ANATEL
National Telecommunications Agency (Agência Nacional de Telecomunicações)
ANCINE
National Cinema Agency (Agência Nacional do Cinema)
ANEEL
National Electricity Agency(Agência Nacional de EnergiaElétrica)
ANM
National Mining Agency (Agência Nacional de Mineração)
ANP
National Oil, Natural Gas and Biofuels Agency (Agência Nacional do Petróleo, Gás Natural e Biocombustíveis)
ANS
National Supplemental Health Care Agency (Agência Nacional de SaúdeSuplementar)
ANTAQ
National Water Transportation Agency (Agência Nacional de TransportesAquaviários)
ANTT
National Terrestrial Transportation Agency (Agência Nacional de TransportesTerrestres)
ANVISA
National Health Surveillance Agency (Agência Nacional de VigilânciaSanitária)
APEC
Asia-Pacific Economic Co-operation
ARCE
Regulatory Agency of Ceará (AgênciaReguladora do Estado do Ceará)
ARR
Evaluation of the Regulatory Result (Avaliação do ResultadoRegulatório)
ARSAE-MG
Regulatory Agency of Water Services and Public Sanitation of Minas Gerais (AgênciaReguladora de Serviços de Abastecimento de Água e de EsgotamentoSanitário do Estado de Minas Gerais)
ARSEPS
Public Services Regulatory Agency of São Paulo State (AgênciaReguladora de ServiçosPúblicos do Estado de São Paulo)
BNDES
National Development Bank (Banco Nacional do Desenvolvimento)
BNDESPar
BNDES Partnerships, Subsidary of BNDES
BPP
Best Practice Principles
BRL
Brazilian Real
CADE
Administrative Council of Economic Defense (ConselhoAdministrativo de DefensaEconômica)
CEO
Chief executive officer
CFA
CFA Institute
CGPAR
Inter-ministerial Commission on Corporate Governance and Management of Equity Interests of the Union (ComissãoInterministerial de GovernançaCorporativa e de Administração de ParticipaçõesSocietárias da União)
CGSIM
Committee for the Management of the National Network for the Simplicidation of the Registry and Formalisation of Businesses (Comitê para Gestão da Rede Nacional para a Simplificação do Registro e da Legalização de Empresas e Negócios)
CGU
Office of the Comptroller General (Controladoria-Geral da União)
CIG
Inter ministerial Council of Governanace (ComitêInterministerial de Governança)
CISB
Inter-ministerial Committee for Basic Sanitation (ComitêInterministerial de SaneamentoBásico)
CIT-Digital
Interministerial Committee for Digital Transformation (ComitêInterministerial para a Transformação Digital)
CMAP
Council for the Monitoring and Evaluation of Public Policies (Conselho de Monitoramento e Avaliação de PolíticasPúblicas)
CMGN
Monitoring Committee for the Opening of the Natural Gas Market (Comitê de Monitoramento da Abertura do Mercado de Gás Natural)
CNPE
National Council for Energy Policy (Conselho Nacional de Política Energética)
CNPJ
National Register of Legal Entities (Cadastro Nacional de PessoasJurídicas)
CONAMER
National Commission for Better Regulation (Comisión Nacional de MejoraRegulatoria)
CT-GN
Committee for the Development of the Natural Gas Industry (Comitê Técnico para o Desenvolvimento da Indústria do Gás Natural no Brasil)
CVM
Securities Commission (Comissão de ValoresMobiliários)
DSP
Digitisation of Public Services Programme
E-Digital
Brazilian Strategy for Digital Transformation (EstratégiaBrasileira para a Transformação Digital)
ENAP
National School of Public Administration (Escola Nacional de AdministraçãoPública)
EPE
Energy Research Office (Empresa de PesquisaEnergética)
ETP
Preliminary Technical Study (Estudotécnicopreliminar)
EU
European Union
FDI
Foreign direct investment
G20
Group of 20
Gasmar
Companhia Maranhense de Gás
Gaspetro
Petrobras Gás
GDP
Gross Domestic Product
ICT
Information and Communication Technologies (Instituto Nacional de Metrologia, Qualidade e Tecnologia)
IEA
International Energy Agency
INMETRO
National Institute of Metrology, Quality and Technology (Instituto Nacional de Metrologia, Qualidade e Tecnologia)
iREG
Indicators of Regulatory Policy and Governance
IT
Information technologies
JMP
Joint Monitoring Programme
LAC
Latin America and the Caribbean
LDC
Local distribution company
LEF
Economic Freedom Act (Lei da Liberdade Econômica)
LLC
Limited liability company
LNG
Liquefied Natural Gas
LPG
Liquefied Petroleum Gas
LRA
Regulatory Agencies Act (Lei das AgênciasReguladoras)
M&ARR
Monitoring and Evaluation of the Regulatory Result (Monitoramento e Avaliação do ResultadoRegulatório)
MERCOSUR
Southern Common Market (Mercado Comum do Sul)
MINFRA
Ministry of Infrastructure (Ministério da Infraestrutura)
MLPC
Minas Free to Grow (Minas Livre para Crescer)
MME
Ministry of Mines and Energy (Ministério de Energia e Minas)
MP
Provisional measure (Medidaprovisória)
NAFTA
North American Free Trade Agreement
NSS
National Secretariat of Sanitation (Secretaria Nacional de Saneamento)
NTS
Nova Transportadora do Sudeste
OBPR
Office of Best Practice Regulation
OECD
Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development
PL
Law proposal (Projeto de Lei)
PLANSAB
National Plan for Basic Sanitation (Plano Nacional de SaneamentoBásico)
PMR
Product Market Regulation
PNCP
Public Contracting National Portal (Portal Nacional de ContrataçõesPúblicas)
PPI
Investment Partnership Programme (Programa de Parcerias de Investimentos)
PPP
Public Private Partnerships
PRO-REG
Programme for the Strengthening of the Institutional Capacities for Regulatory Management (Programa de Fortalecimento da CapacidadeInstitucional para GestãoemRegulação)
RADAR
Network for the Articulation of Regulatory Agencies, Brazil (Rede de Articulação das AgênciasReguladoras)
RDC
Resolution of the Collegiate Board of Directors (Resolução de DiretoriaColegiada)
Redesim
National Network for the Simplification of the Registry and Formalisation of Businesses (Rede Nacional para a Simplificação do Registro e da Legalização de Empresas e Negócios)
RIA
Regulatory Impact Assessment
ROB
Regulatory Oversight Body
SAG
Deputy Chief of Analysis and Monitoring of Government Policies (Subchefia de AnáliseGovernamental)
SCM
Standard Cost Model
SDDG
Special Secretariat for De-bureaucratisation, Management and Digital Government
SEAE
Secretariat for Competition Advocacy and Competitiveness
Seinfra-MG
State Secretariat of Infrastructure and Mobility of Minas Gerais
SinDigital
National System for Digital Transformation
SINGREH
National System for the Management of Hydric Resources (Sistema Nacional de Gerenciamento de RecursosHídricos)
SINIR
National Information System about the Management of Solid Waste (Sistema Nacional de Informaçõessobre a Gestão dos ResíduosSólidos)
Siscomex
Single Foreign Rade Portal Programme (Programa Portal Único de Comércio Exterior)
SNIS
National Information System for Basic Sanitation (Sistema Nacional de InformaçõessobreSaneamento)
Term of Commitment to Cease Anticompetitive Practices (Termo de Compromisso de Cessação)
TPA
Third-party access
TRAINS
UNCTAD Trade Analysis Information System
TSB
Transportadora Sulbrasileira de Gás
UNCTAD
United Nations Conference on Trade and Development
UNICEF
United Nations International Children’s Emergency Fund
USAID
US Agency for International Development
USD
United States Dollar
WHO
World Health Organization
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